| 单词 | go blind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go blind h. In Poker, to go blind: to put up a blind (see blind n. 8); hence to go (a specified stake) blind. Hence applied to forms of Poker in which this is done; so blind hand. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > type of hand two bullets and a bragger1807 full1843 full hand1846 pat hand1865 blind hand1872 full house1879 blaze1880 tiger1889 kilter1895 drawing hand1910 bust1932 made hand1974 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics brag1734 fill1865 to go blind1872 to go it blind1872 stay1882 re-raise1903 sandbag1940 slow-play1971 1872 [see sense 1i]. 1882 Poker 88 For some reasons players never give the blind hand credit for a good or even an average hand. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 283/2 The age is sometimes allowed to go blind, i.e., to raise the ante before he sees his cards. 1885 B. L. Farjeon Sacred Nugget xvii He put in [the pool] a bank-note, and said, ‘Five pound blind’. Antonio..put in an I.O.U. for ten pounds, saying ‘I straddle you’. to go (a specified stake) blind h. In Poker, to go blind: to put up a blind (see blind n. 8); hence to go (a specified stake) blind. Hence applied to forms of Poker in which this is done; so blind hand. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > type of hand two bullets and a bragger1807 full1843 full hand1846 pat hand1865 blind hand1872 full house1879 blaze1880 tiger1889 kilter1895 drawing hand1910 bust1932 made hand1974 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics brag1734 fill1865 to go blind1872 to go it blind1872 stay1882 re-raise1903 sandbag1940 slow-play1971 1872 [see sense 1i]. 1882 Poker 88 For some reasons players never give the blind hand credit for a good or even an average hand. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 283/2 The age is sometimes allowed to go blind, i.e., to raise the ante before he sees his cards. 1885 B. L. Farjeon Sacred Nugget xvii He put in [the pool] a bank-note, and said, ‘Five pound blind’. Antonio..put in an I.O.U. for ten pounds, saying ‘I straddle you’. to go blind (on ——) i. to go it blind: to act without previous investigation of the circumstances; to plunge without regard to the risks involved. Also to go blind (on ——). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > be incautious [verb (intransitive)] to go it1840 to go it blind1840 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > enter into incautiously or rashly [verb (transitive)] to go it blind1840 to go bald-headed (into, for, at)1848 to walk into ——1911 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics brag1734 fill1865 to go blind1872 to go it blind1872 stay1882 re-raise1903 sandbag1940 slow-play1971 1840 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 14 Mar. 18 Don't think of ‘going it blind’, but according to Walker! 1846 Congress. Globe App. 120 All I ask of him is that he will not ‘go it blind’ upon Oregon. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. viii. 111 It gives a Party Platform, tu, jest level with the mind..Of..honest folks thet mean to go it blind. 1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd ser. iv. 10 An' agin to impress on the poppylar mind The comfort an' wisdom o' goin' it blind. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 328 Poker, when played by betting before looking at one's hand, is called Blind Poker, and this has given rise to the very common phrase, to go it blind, used whenever an enterprise is undertaken without previous enquiry. 1875 W. T. Sherman Mem. I. 342 I know that in Washington I am incomprehensible, because at the outset of the war I would not go it blind. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 63 And faith he went the pace and went it blind. 1909 Daily Chron. 8 Feb. 4/4 If that be true, shall we be quite wise to ‘go blind’ on Dreadnoughts alone? 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. viii Yes; they go it blind; it's the only logical way now. < as lemmas |
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