单词 | hands up |
释义 | hands upint. 1. A command or direction to raise a hand in the air to signify assent or to identify oneself.Frequently used by schoolteachers to request children to identify themselves as knowing the answer to a question. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [interjection] > stop sweeping hands up1848 1848 Indicator Oct. 160 Hands up, 'tis a vote. 1871 F. Crosby in P. Garrett Excelsior Dialogues (rev. ed.) 16 Now—hands up—who can spell my fust name? 1921 G. M. Martin March On xxiii. 253 Hands up, who'll buy? 1956 P. Green Wilderness Road i. ii. 27 How many of you will send your children to school? Hands up. 1992 Nat. World Winter 50/1 Hands up, children! What very significant environmental event took place last June? 2008 K. Gray Ostrich Boys xxii. 200 Hands up if you want to sleep there. 2. A command to put both hands in the air, to preclude resistance and hence to signify surrender. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > order to preclude resistance [interjection] hands up1859 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. vi. 128 ‘Hands up,’ roars one of the men. 1873 J. Miller Life amongst Modocs 193 Hands up, gentlemen! 1916 Rep. Supreme Court Utah 46 169 As the officer overtook the defendant he called out ‘Hands up!’ 1954 S. Milligan Goon Show Scripts 26 Oct. (1973) 67 Hands up, you pig swine. 2012 M. A. Smith Inquisitor x. 113 Harry pushed the gun's muzzle deeper into the thin flesh. ‘Hands up.’ 3. Curling. A command given by the captain of a team to stop sweeping the ice. Now rare. ΚΠ 1881 ‘Rockwood’ Stories Sc. Sports 34 The guiding skip..cries at them to keep their ‘hands up, not a cowe [broom], my lads’.] 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 264/1 Hands up, the command of the Skip..to stop sweeping. 1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 646/1 Curling has a language which contains many curious terms... Hands up! stop sweeping. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < int.1848 |
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