| 单词 | duffer's fortnight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasduffer's fortnight duffer's fortnight n. (also duffers' fortnight) a fortnight of the angling season during which trout are said to be caught easily. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for trout > time duffer's fortnight1904 1904 W. E. Hodgson Trout Fishing i. 28 We hear also of ‘the duffer's fortnight’: what can these words mean save that during the period of the Mayfly the trout are so abandoned in voracity that the need for skill in luring them is for the time gone? 1928 Daily Express 28 May 4/5 This annual festival of the Mayfly inaugurates the ‘Duffers' Fortnight’. 1972 Shooting Times & Country Mag. 27 May 19/1 The two weeks..have come to be known as the duffer's fortnight. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 May (Weekend section) 14 After months of waiting, Duffer's Fortnight is here; those amazing May days when the chalkstreams are wreathed in clouds of dancing mayflies..sending trout into a feeding frenzy. < as lemmas |
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