| 单词 | fly-the-garter | 
| 释义 | fly-the-gartern.  A game in which the players leap from one side of a ‘garter’ or line of stones over the back of one of their number. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > 			[noun]		 > leap-frog leap-frog1600 truss1627 cock-horse1648 truss-a-faila1658 skip-frog1699 hop-frog1720 frog in the middle (also meadow)1790 fly-the-garter1818 frog over an old dog1847–78 1818    J. Keats Lett. in  Wks. 		(1889)	 III. 153  				I must..make Wordsworth and Coleman play at leap-frog, or keep one of them down a whole half-holiday at fly-the-garter. 1862    M. E. Braddon Ralph Bailiff, Happy Xmas 161  				Prisoner's base and fly-the-garter in the great bare playground. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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