英语词汇“freeman's key”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

5. slang (chiefly British and Australian). freeman's key (also quay) (also with capital initial(s)): a (notional) place where, or set of circumstances in which, alcoholic drinks are offered free of charge. Cf. Harry Freeman's n. at Harry n.² Compounds 1b(b). Now rare. freeman's: short for freeman's key (also quay); (also) a free drink.The term is said to have arisen with reference to the name of a wharf near London Bridge: see J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (1864) 138.

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1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Freeman's Quay,... To lush at Freeman's Quay; to drink at another's cost.

1837 Streetol. London Sept. 37 [He] requested me to name the liquor I meant to moisten my clay with, seeing that I was at ‘Freeman's Quay’. I thought I might as well make the most of a good thing.., so ‘brandy and water’ was the reply.

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 49 He's a hout-and-hout free chap, 'cos he's so much at freeman's key.

1915 ‘Alpha’ Reminisc. Goldfields i. 51 He..usually went on the spree every second month, and while in that state lost more than he made, the house being freeman's key for a time, until he again sobered up.

1981 D. J. Wilcox & E. L. Rantzen Kill Chocolate Biscuit i. 31 ‘Usually I only drink freeman's.’ ‘What's that?’ said Esther. ‘You know, freeman's, the drink you don't pay for,’ she replied.

1999 J. Cameron Brown Bread in Wengen 204 Booze on the freeman's you hear what I'm saying?

单词	freeman's key
释义	> as lemmas freeman's key (also quay) 5. slang (chiefly British and Australian). freeman's key (also quay) (also with capital initial(s)): a (notional) place where, or set of circumstances in which, alcoholic drinks are offered free of charge. Cf. Harry Freeman's n. at Harry n.² Compounds 1b(b). Now rare. freeman's: short for freeman's key (also quay); (also) a free drink.The term is said to have arisen with reference to the name of a wharf near London Bridge: see J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (1864) 138. ΚΠ 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Freeman's Quay,... To lush at Freeman's Quay; to drink at another's cost. 1837 Streetol. London Sept. 37 [He] requested me to name the liquor I meant to moisten my clay with, seeing that I was at ‘Freeman's Quay’. I thought I might as well make the most of a good thing.., so ‘brandy and water’ was the reply. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 49 He's a hout-and-hout free chap, 'cos he's so much at freeman's key. 1915 ‘Alpha’ Reminisc. Goldfields i. 51 He..usually went on the spree every second month, and while in that state lost more than he made, the house being freeman's key for a time, until he again sobered up. 1981 D. J. Wilcox & E. L. Rantzen Kill Chocolate Biscuit i. 31 ‘Usually I only drink freeman's.’ ‘What's that?’ said Esther. ‘You know, freeman's, the drink you don't pay for,’ she replied. 1999 J. Cameron Brown Bread in Wengen 204 Booze on the freeman's you hear what I'm saying? extracted from freemann. < as lemmas
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