| 单词 | devil's picture books |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdevil's picture books (c) slang (frequently depreciative). In terms (chiefly with the) denoting objects used in gambling. devil's bones: dice. devil's books (also devil's picture books) and variants: playing cards.Cf. also devil's bedposts n. at Compounds 3b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice diec1330 bicched bonesc1386 bonec1405 dalyc1440 huckle-bone1542 devil's bones1597 tat1688 St Hugh's bones1785 ivory1830 astragal1850 1597 H. Clapham Theol. Axioms sig. Eiij A payre of Cards (the Deuels common seruice booke). 1618 T. Taylor Christs Combate & Conquest 125 Many..cannot tell how to passe their time, but by taking in hand the deuills bookes and bones (as one calleth them) cards and dice. 1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge ii. iii. 29 I do not understand Dice... Hang the Devil's bones. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 194 Damn your Cards, said he, they are the Devil's Books. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxxiii, in Poems 21 They..wi' crabbet leuks, Pore owre the devil's pictur'd beuks. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. xii. 303 A gamester, one who deals with the devil's bones. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iv. 202 What hours, what nights, what health did he waste over the devil's books! 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers i. 20 Morel never in his life played cards,..‘the devil's pictures’, he called them! 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 31 My father..jocularly referred to the cards as the Devil's picture-gallery. 1965 Times 28 May 16/6 He brought up his family with obsessive severity..habitually speaking of playing cards as the ‘devil's books’. 2005 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 31 Oct. 57 Indulging in otherwise seemingly innocent activities, such as playing dice (the devil's bones) or having a game of cards using the devil's picture books. < as lemmas |
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