| 单词 | gone duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgone duck b. U.S. In gone duck, gone goose, and similarly with other nouns denoting animals. Designating a person who or thing which is a lost cause or beyond hope of recovery. Cf. dead duck n. at dead adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2. See also gone coon n. Now somewhat archaic. †it's (a) gone goose with: it is all up with (a person) (obsolete).With gone duck cf. earlier gone dick (cf. dick n.1 1a) in quot. 1814 at sense A. 2a(b). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] deplorate1544 deplored1559 hopeless1566 hopelost1570 insperable1623 deplorable1684 gone duck1830 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > possessed with extravagant folly assotted1393 infonded1567 affatuated1649 gone duck1830 affatuate1834 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [noun] > person or thing beyond hope unreclaimable1649 gone duck1830 goner1836 gone coon1837 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of states or events deplorate1544 deplored1559 hopeless1566 despaired1597 insperable1623 despaired of1635 gone duck1830 1830 Massachusetts Spy 7 July You are a gone goose, friend. 1833 New-Hampsh. Statesman 2 Feb. Finding it would be a gone goose with him pretty soon if he staid there, he began to sing out..for us to come and take him. 1834 W. G. Simms Guy Rivers I. xiii. 198 I thought myself a gone chick under that spur. 1840 Good Hard Cider (sheet music) in Six Patriotic Ballads We're a couple gone ducks, in the sight of that pair. 1841 Gift 1842 110 I begun to think then it was gone goose with us. 1860 E. Bennett Forest & Prairie 295 All at once the blood began to gush from my nose, and mouth, and ears, and then I knowed, ef I couldn't play possum and come the blind over the Injun, I war a gone beaver. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 343 Gone-goose, a ship deserted or given up in despair (in extremis). 1873 National Live-stock Jrnl. (Chicago) Oct. 349/3 After that it is all ‘gone goose’ with the next generation. 1886 J. M. Thompson Banker of Bankersville (1887) xix. 285 If they do git 'im he's a gone goslin'. 1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) 59 But I catch pneumonia, and it looks as if maybe I am a gone gosling. 1945 N. H. Thorp & N. M. Clark Pardner of Wind 69 A cowboy without a horse was a gone gander for sure. 1958 J. Hawkins & W. Hawkins Death Watch (1959) 88 If my luck won't hold..I'm a gone goose anyway. 1997 W. M. Gear Coyote Summer (1997) v. 70 Stop thinking, stop being wary as a lamb in the lion's den, and yer gone beaver. 2009 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 11 May If Obama gets his way we are gone goslings. < as lemmas |
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