| 单词 | a ganging foot is aye getting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa ganging foot is aye getting P6. In proverbs and proverbial sayings. Esp. in a ganging foot is aye getting and variants: an industrious or adventurous person will get by or make a living. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 28939 Gangand fote ay getes fode. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. vi. f. 32 Because they seeme contrarye to thoppinions of all the Astronomers, I wyll touche them but with a drye foote as sayth the prouerbe. a1633 G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) sig. C2v All feete tread not in one shoe. 1670 Sc. Prov. in J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 262 A walking foot is ay getting. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 11 A going Foot is ay getting, if it were but a Thorn. 1832 Athenæum 1 Dec. 775/3 Nor is the tale..to be passed over, as some of our old writers say, with a dry foot. 1870 Harper's Mag. June 98/1 ‘The ganging foot is aye getting,’ rejoined Adolphus. ‘I'm sick of hanging around home. A fellow with an adventurous turn of mind can't stand it.’ 1908 C. D. Mackellar Pleasure Pilgrim in S. Amer. 115 I..stepped gingerly, as I thought of the old Scottish proverb, ‘A ganging foot is aye getting’, and what in God's name might I not be getting there. 1940 Scotsman 24 Aug. 9/5 The Scots in Poland travelled indeed to the theme of ‘ganging feet are aye getting’. < as lemmas |
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