| 单词 | 'possum up a gum tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmas'possum up a gum tree P1. to be up a gum tree: to be in great difficulties; cf. tree n.; 'possum up a gum tree: the title of a song or dance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits to be hard bested?c1225 to be hard set1387 to be hard (straitly, stiffly, etc.) steada1400 to have mistera1400 charge1487 to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to ita1616 straiten1647 to be ill set1673 press1813 to be up a gum tree1829 push1863 1829 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 131 Dere's possum up de gum tree. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xxi Many's the time I have danced ‘Possum up a gum tree’ at a quiltin' frolic or huskin' party. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing vii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 325/2 ’Possum up a gum-tree, eh? 1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness iii. 86 S'long as they're in his trousers pocket you're up a gum-tree. 1927 Daily Express 15 July 1/4 Captain Lancaster cannot obtain any information, and, as he says, he is ‘up a gum tree’. 1959 Encounter Nov. 60/2 Until somebody solves the problem of an English idiom we're going to be up a gum-tree. < as lemmas |
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