dinner pailn.

Brit.

/ˈdɪnə peɪl/, U.S.

/ˈdɪnər ˌpeɪl/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dinner n., pail n.¹

Etymology: < dinner n. + pail n.¹

Originally and chiefly U.S.Only in phrasal use outside of the United States: see Phrases.

A pail in which a labourer's or schoolchild's dinner is carried and kept warm. Formerly often in political contexts as a metonym for economic prosperity, esp. in full dinner pail. Cf. lunch-pail n.Now somewhat dated.

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1833 Boston Lit. Mag. Mar. 515 We have climbed the orchard together for birds' nests, and fished in the same pond with our dinner-pails for thorn-backs and other small fishes.

1856 M. J. Holmes Homestead vi. i The little ‘tin bucket’..serves the treble purpose of dinnerpail, washbowl, and drinking cup.

1900 Nation 71 323/2 He comes something short of ex-President Harrison's ability to see a ‘spiritual significance’ in the full dinner-pail.

1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel iv. 277 The unprecedented possibilities of capital collected in great corporations had given the full dinnerpail, cheap motor transport, insurance, short working hours.

1940 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter iv The men came out carrying their dinner pails.

2019 Spokesman Rev. (Spokane, Washington) (Nexis) 29 Nov. c1 When they were first trapped by a cave-in, they had only their two dinner pails.

Phrases

colloquial. to hand (also, pass, turn) in one's dinner pail: to die.Popularized by the works of P. G. Wodehouse. Apparently never an established phrase in the U.S.

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1905 A. M. Binstead Mop Fair iv. 63 Evelyn Godolphin Mountprospect..passed in his dinner pail.

1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert i. 14 A sliced ball, whizzing in at the open window, had come within an ace of incapacitating Raymond Parsloe Devine... Two inches, indeed, to the right and Raymond must inevitably have handed in his dinner-pail.

1964 P. G. Wodehouse Frozen Assets iii. 49 My godfather..recently turned in his dinner pail and went to reside with the morning stars.

2020 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 6 Dec. (Print & ed. 1) (Money section) 43 It very much depends on my life expectancy and..I would be happy to give myself the average for Australian males and assume that I will hand in my dinner pail in 2044.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

单词	dinner pail
释义	dinner pailn. Brit. /ˈdɪnə peɪl/, U.S. /ˈdɪnər ˌpeɪl/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dinner n., pail n.¹ Etymology: < dinner n. + pail n.¹ Originally and chiefly U.S.Only in phrasal use outside of the United States: see Phrases. A pail in which a labourer's or schoolchild's dinner is carried and kept warm. Formerly often in political contexts as a metonym for economic prosperity, esp. in full dinner pail. Cf. lunch-pail n.Now somewhat dated. ΚΠ 1833 Boston Lit. Mag. Mar. 515 We have climbed the orchard together for birds' nests, and fished in the same pond with our dinner-pails for thorn-backs and other small fishes. 1856 M. J. Holmes Homestead vi. i The little ‘tin bucket’..serves the treble purpose of dinnerpail, washbowl, and drinking cup. 1900 Nation 71 323/2 He comes something short of ex-President Harrison's ability to see a ‘spiritual significance’ in the full dinner-pail. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel iv. 277 The unprecedented possibilities of capital collected in great corporations had given the full dinnerpail, cheap motor transport, insurance, short working hours. 1940 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter iv The men came out carrying their dinner pails. 2019 Spokesman Rev. (Spokane, Washington) (Nexis) 29 Nov. c1 When they were first trapped by a cave-in, they had only their two dinner pails. Phrases colloquial. to hand (also, pass, turn) in one's dinner pail: to die.Popularized by the works of P. G. Wodehouse. Apparently never an established phrase in the U.S. ΚΠ 1905 A. M. Binstead Mop Fair iv. 63 Evelyn Godolphin Mountprospect..passed in his dinner pail. 1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert i. 14 A sliced ball, whizzing in at the open window, had come within an ace of incapacitating Raymond Parsloe Devine... Two inches, indeed, to the right and Raymond must inevitably have handed in his dinner-pail. 1964 P. G. Wodehouse Frozen Assets iii. 49 My godfather..recently turned in his dinner pail and went to reside with the morning stars. 2020 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 6 Dec. (Print & ed. 1) (Money section) 43 It very much depends on my life expectancy and..I would be happy to give myself the average for Australian males and assume that I will hand in my dinner pail in 2044. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1833
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