| 单词 | dressed up like a sore finger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdressed (or done, etc.) up like a sore finger (or toe) d. Colloquial phrase dressed (or done, etc.) up like a sore finger (or toe) and variants, overdressed. Australian and New Zealand. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > overdressed got up like a pox doctor's clerk1680 bedizened1707 overdressed1769 dressed (or done, etc.) up like a sore finger (or toe)1919 tarted1938 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 46 Sore finger, an overdressed person (e.g. ‘dolled up like a sore finger’). 1939 K. Tennant Foveaux 430 You ought to a seen us in the ole days when we 'ad a procession every year—done up like a sore toe with banners and floats. 1943 J. A. W. Bennett in Amer. Speech 18 91 ‘All done up like a sore toe’ describes someone dressed over-elaborately; many New Zealand children go barefoot much of the time, and it is with this circumstance in mind that we must interpret the simile. 1958 H. D. Williamson Sunlit Plain 10 Get an eyeful of him! Done up like a sore toe. 1965 P. White Four Plays 168 I'm gunna get out of this suit. Dressed up like a sore finger. < as lemmas |
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