| 单词 | fit as a butcher's dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfit as a butcher's dog butcher's dog n. (a) (frequently in form butcher dog) a kind of large dog or mastiff (now historical and rare); (b) colloquial a dog kept by a butcher, typified (in similative phrases) as particularly bad-tempered or aggressive, or (in later use) especially fit and healthy (now esp. in fit as a butcher's dog). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > unspecified types butcher's doga1425 water-ruga1616 grindle-taila1625 rock1719 poligar dog1788 tiger-hound1880 poligar hound1907 a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xv. 72 Gret bucher dogges, þe whiche bochers holdeth forto helpe hem to brynge her beestes þat þei bieth in þe contre. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 262 (MED) A lytel hound, þat..berkyth more þan a gret bocherys dogge. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 28 In latine Canis Laniarius in Englishe the Butchers Dogge. 1597 Returne fr. Parnassus Pt. 2. ii. v. 871 All kinde of dogges..Butchers dogs, Bloud-hounds, Dunghill dogges. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 208 As surly as a butchers dog. 1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 260 I procured six puppies, of the butcher-dog-kind. 1843 G. Soane Last Ball I. v. 156 Six of them..and one..looks as surly as a butcher's dog. 1846 Sporting Mag. Jan. 111 During your rambles..your ears are assailed by the barking of whole packs of nondescripts, from the gigantic butcher's dog to the contemptible demi-pug. 1867 J. R. Houlding Austral. Capers ix. 77 Ye'd betther [sic] look out, for she's as savage as a butcher's dog. 1902 Albury (New S. Wales) Banner 26 Dec. 25/4 He..winds up by rolling home at midnight as full of fight as a butcher's dog. 1915 Kiama (New S. Wales) Independent 19 May A South Coast boy writing home said the Australians in Egypt were fit and as full of fight as a ‘butcher's dog’. 1954 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 44 166/2 Valentin operated on a large butcher dog. 1968 Stage 28 Mar. 4/3 Brendan..registered a mental vow to do something about reducing his 17 stone... The nu-look Brendan scales 15 stone 7lb. ‘I'm fit as a butcher's dog,’ he boasts, and looks it. 2007 G. Hurley One Under iii. 52 Here he was, Jake Tarrant's favourite detective, fit as a butcher's dog. < as lemmas |
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