| 单词 | higher than gilderoy's kite |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigher than (or as high as) Gilderoy's kite higher than (or as high as) Gilderoy's kite and variants: extremely high; out of sight (usually in figurative contexts). Cf. high adv. Phrases 1. Now rare.Also in to be hung higher than Gilderoy's kite (see quot. 1888). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > in a high position [phrase] > extremely high higher than (or as high as) Gilderoy's kite1859 1859 Democratic Pharos (Logansport, Indiana) 20 July If the house-tops were as high as Mr. Gilderoy's kite, or as uncomfortable as the peaks Chimborazo, still I should choose it. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxv. 256 The first time she took her new toy into action she got it knocked higher than Gilderoy's kite—to use the language of the Pilgrims. 1888 E. C. Brewer in Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 5 357/1 To be ‘hung higher than Gilderoy's kite’ means to be punished more severely than the very worst of criminals... The ballad says:..They ‘hong him high abone the rest’, because his crimes were deemed to be more heinous. So high he hung, he looked like ‘a kite in the air’. 1892 Outing Jan. 315/2 A man may be like the Rock of Gibraltar in his convictions against sentiment, but the right woman will knock them as high as Gilderoy's kite when she applies the nitro-glycerine of her witcheries to him. 1922 Boy's Life Nov. 35/2 He gets a crack in a scrimmage, loses his head and blows up higher than Gilroy's kite. 1934 H. Corey Crime at Cobb's House iii. 35 The colt threw him higher'n Gilderoy's kite. 1940 Montana Standard 13 Oct. 22/6 Tonkin..is about to attack the anti-gambling law and his attorneys predict they may ‘knock it higher than Gilderoy's kite’. < as lemmas |
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