| 单词 | hot beef |
| 释义 | > as lemmashot beef hot beef int. and n. [rhyming slang for thief n.] now rare (a) int. ‘Stop thief!’; (b) n. a cry of this, as in to give (a person) hot beef. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > under arrest [phrase] > cry for help to arrest thief stop thief!1714 hot beef1861 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour III. 128/1 There is a regular run over the stage crying ‘Hot beef! hot beef!’ (instead of ‘Stop thief!’). 1879 Macmillan's Mag. 40 506/2 He followed, giving me hot beef (calling ‘Stop thief’). 1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago x. 95 It was now that he first experienced ‘hot beef’—which is the Jago idiom denoting the plight of one harried by the cry ‘Stop thief’. 1973 G. Butler Coffin for Pandora vii. 157 ‘Hot beef, hot beef,’ cried the schoolboys. ‘Catch him.’ < as lemmas |
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