| 单词 | game and |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgame and e. With ellipsis of second element in certain predictable or regular combinations (now rare); spec. (a) the second of two articles of food or drink commonly served together (see also coffee and n. at coffee n. Compounds 2; cf. with prep. 26b(b)); (b) (Poker) (perhaps) the second of two pairs in a hand; (c) (Tennis) a second score equal to the first given; game and: one game all; (also) game and set. ΚΠ 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xv. 104 She then asked the Doctor and Mr. Barnabus what Morning's Draught they chose, who answered, they had a Pot of Syder-and, at the Fire. View more context for this quotation 1875 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old 74 His last act was to go his pile on ‘Kings-and’..when there was a ‘flush’ out agin him. 1899 ‘M. Twain’ Man that corrupted Hadleyburg 100 He saw my deuces-and with a straight flush, and by rights the pot is his. 1938 R. L. Ramsay Mark Twain Lexicon 6/7 Neither ‘kings-and’ nor ‘deuces-and’ is explained in any dictionary, and neither combination seems to be any longer in use. Present day poker experts..are far from agreed in their interpretations. With this emphatic use of ‘and’ compare the common American tennis expressions ‘game-and’ and ‘thirty-and’ for what the British call ‘game-all’ and ‘thirty-all’; also the still more familiar Americanism ‘ham-and’ for a restaurant order of ham and eggs. 1948 J. Betjeman Sel. Poems 114 Harold serves again... ‘Game..AND! and thank you!’ < as lemmas |
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