| 单词 | gas and gaiters |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgas and gaiters b. gas and gaiters: pompousness, verbosity. Cf. sense A. 5. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > pomposity stiltedness1828 pomposity1841 gas and gaiters1856 pompousness1870 1856 Argus (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 5/7 ‘Austral’ may vent his virtuous indignation on pagan immigrants..but it is all vox et præterea nihil—colonially translated, ‘gas and gaiters’. 1895 Rev. of Rev. May 599/2 We get the notion that the dramatist's taste and ability for scientific research, which have obtained such solemn acknowledgment in Le Temps and the Revue des Revues, are so much ‘gas and gaiters’. 1923 A. C. Benson Trefoil iii. 26 My father was profoundly irritated by him, and..said something..about ‘gas and gaiters’ which seemed to us a harsh description of so pretty a man. 1968 H. Hill Let. 8 Jan. in J. S. Smith Spy in Bookshop (2006) 70 I must anyway stop gassing, especially knowing how much gas and gaiters you have to endure. < as lemmas |
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