| 单词 | how squares go |
| 释义 | > as lemmashow (the) squares go ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > in progress [phrase] > how things proceed how the world wagsc1525 how (the) squares go1608 1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) i. sig. B2 v How goes the squares. 1642 J. Howell True Informer 2 I pray be pleased to make me partaker of some forraigne news, and how the squares goe betwixt France and Spaine. 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. v. ii. 203 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) Sha-Abbas,..to know how squares went in his kingdom,..oft'n disguis'd himself, and went about the City..to discover whether Merchants us'd false weights. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xvi. xvii, in Wks. 469 He first gave him an Account of what had pass'd at Berytus; and then ask'd him how Squares went at Rome. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘How gang squares?’ a familiar form of salutation, equivalent to ‘how d' ye do’. < as lemmas |
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