英语词汇“a wigwam for a goose's bridle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. a wigwam for a goose's bridle: a nonsense term, now typically used evasively in response to an unwanted or annoying question.

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1836 United Service Jrnl. Mar. 341 I ordered him to make me a double-breasted wig with sleeves, and a wigwam for a goose's bridle to match.

1916 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 5 Aug. 6/4 A prickly-pear selection in that quarter would be about as handsome an asset to a returned soldier as a ‘wig-wam for a goose's bridle.’

1938 in Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) Used by W.H. Orsman (b. Nelson, 1863), usu. as wigwam for a goose's bridle, as a reply to an inquisitive child.

1945 M. Raymond Smiley iv. 41 ‘Where you goin'?’.. ‘To git a wigwam for a goose's bridle!’ yelled Smiley insolently, recalling one of the sayings of Granny McKinley, the oldest inhabitant.

1982 J. Frame To Island (1984) 80 Those answers were as meaningless as the teasing answer people gave when you asked them what they were making: ‘A wigwam for a goose's bridle’.

2013 Daily Examiner (Grafton, New S. Wales) (Nexis) 20 Apr. 21 Dad's frequent response to our endless barrage of questions about what he was doing: ‘I'm off to fetch a wig-wam for a goose's bridle’.

单词	a wigwam for a goose's bridle
释义	> as lemmas a wigwam for a goose's bridle Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. a wigwam for a goose's bridle: a nonsense term, now typically used evasively in response to an unwanted or annoying question. ΚΠ 1836 United Service Jrnl. Mar. 341 I ordered him to make me a double-breasted wig with sleeves, and a wigwam for a goose's bridle to match. 1916 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 5 Aug. 6/4 A prickly-pear selection in that quarter would be about as handsome an asset to a returned soldier as a ‘wig-wam for a goose's bridle.’ 1938 in Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) Used by W.H. Orsman (b. Nelson, 1863), usu. as wigwam for a goose's bridle, as a reply to an inquisitive child. 1945 M. Raymond Smiley iv. 41 ‘Where you goin'?’.. ‘To git a wigwam for a goose's bridle!’ yelled Smiley insolently, recalling one of the sayings of Granny McKinley, the oldest inhabitant. 1982 J. Frame To Island (1984) 80 Those answers were as meaningless as the teasing answer people gave when you asked them what they were making: ‘A wigwam for a goose's bridle’. 2013 Daily Examiner (Grafton, New S. Wales) (Nexis) 20 Apr. 21 Dad's frequent response to our endless barrage of questions about what he was doing: ‘I'm off to fetch a wig-wam for a goose's bridle’. extracted from wigwamn. < as lemmas
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