| 单词 | game of statues |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgame of statues 3. Usually in plural. Any of various children's games in which players must stand still in different postures. Also more fully game of statues, statue game, statues game. Cf. musical statues n. at musical adj. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1839 tr. J.-P. Brès Social Amusem. iv. 121 The young people sometimes played this game of statues with the addition of music. 1871 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 678/2 There is the ‘Game of Statues’. 1915 Primary Educ. Jan. 48/2 A good way to quiet children when they become restless is to play the ‘statue game’. 1935 E. Farjeon Nursery in Nineties v. 240 She quickly suggests a game, Magical Music, or Forfeits, or Statues. She..thumps the only tune to which Statues can be played. 1973 S. Kydd For you War is Over xi. 294 Several dead soldiers..were frozen into grotesque positions like some macabre 'Statues' game. 1986 T. C. Leonard Power of Press vii. 207 Officeholders..usually appear to be fleeing the camera or caught at playing a children's game of Statue. 2004 K. MacAlister Corset Diaries 76 No one moved a muscle; it was like they were all playing a game of statues. < as lemmas |
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