| 单词 | hole in the wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmashole in the wall b. hole in the wall, (an originally disparaging term for) any small, obscure place; spec. in the U.S., a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally. Applied, esp. attributive, to a business that is very small, mean, dingy, or the like, or to a person running such a business. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adjective] unledeeOE sorryOE evila1131 usellc1175 wanlichec1275 bad1276 sorry1372 meana1375 caitiff1393 loddera1400 woefula1400 foulc1400 wretched1450 meschant?1473 unselc1480 peevisha1522 miser1542 scurvy?1577 forlorn1582 villainous1582 measled1596 lamented1611 thrallfula1618 despicable1635 deplorable1642 so-and-so1656 poorish1657 squalida1660 lamentable1676 mesquina1706 shan1714 execrable1738 quisby1807 hole in the wall1822 measly1847 bum1878 shag-bag1888 snidey1890 pathetic1900 the world > space > place > [noun] > set apart or out of the way > small and obscure business premises hole in the wall1822 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > paltry, mean, or contemptible > types of Lilliputian1726 hole in the wall1822 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling liquor > unlicensed > specific illicit or illegal poteen shop1834 blind-pig1887 hole in the wall1887 speakeasy1889 1822 W. Hazlitt in New Monthly Mag. 4 102 I had heard Mr. James Simpkins..when the character of the Hole in the Wall was brought in question, observe—‘The house is a very good house, and the company quite genteel.’ 1856 Iroquois Republican (Middleport, Illinois) 25 Dec. 2/3 A ‘grocery’—a ‘doggery’ —a ‘hole-in-the-wall’—is an ‘odious damned spot’ in any community. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xviii. 142 The Gate House, of which..the Verger's hole in the wall was an appanage or subsidiary part. 1887 Minnesota Gen. Statutes Suppl. (1888) 248 Whoever shall attempt to evade or violate any of the laws of this state..by means of the artifice or contrivance known as the ‘Blind Pig’, or ‘Hole in the Wall’..shall..be punished. 1896 C. H. Shinn Story of Mine 51 Many lived in ‘dug-outs’, which they called ‘holes in the wall’. 1919 Detective Story Mag. 25 Nov. 129 He breakfasted at a hole-in-the-wall lunch room before starting out on his quest. 1923 D. Sells Brit. Trade Boards Syst. iv. ii. 259 The emphasis which reputable employers lay upon the benefit of Trade Boards in eliminating the ‘hole in the wall’ employer..from the field of industry, can hardly be overstated. 1940 F. Riesenberg Golden Gate 212 Craft that could go into the ‘holes in the wall’ along the ragged Pacific Coast. 1945 E. S. Gardner Case of Gold-digger's Purse (1948) xiii. 153 It's just a little place—just a little lunch counter. Sort of a hole in the wall. 1945 ‘L. Lewis’ Birthday Murder (1951) iii. 37 Sawn scorned..decadent play spots of the economically fortunate, and would insist on going to a hole in the wall infested by cockroaches, cocottes and cab drivers. 1951 C. W. Mills White Collar i. ii. 30 The hole-in-the-wall business, also known as a Mom-and-Pop store. 1953 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row viii. 60 A Bohemian section of the town..dotted with little..hole-in-the-wall cafés. 1958 Time 3 Feb. 23/1 To survive, most workers have to take second jobs, many of them in the innumerable hole-in-the-wall private enterprises that have sprung up. 1973 J. Goodfield Courier to Peking ix. 100 One of her favourite places was more a hole-in-the-wall than a shop. < as lemmas |
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