| 单词 | as —— as dick's hatband |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas —— as Dick's (or Nick's) hatband Now chiefly U.S. colloquial as —— as Dick's (or Nick's) hatband and variants: in similative expressions indicating that a person is extremely strange, stingy, cross, etc. [The semantic motivation is unclear; it has been conjectured that Dick or Nick was a well-known character in a particular area whose droll sayings were repeated.] ΚΠ 1742 J. Ayres Sancho at Court iii. 44 A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) at Dick I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me. 1858 ‘H. Lee’ Sylvan Holt's Daughter I. iii. 13 He 'd tum'led out o' t' wrang side o' his bed..an' was as cross as Nick's hatband. 1872 T. Clarke et al. Specimens Westmorland Dial. 10 He wes queerer ner Dick's hat-band, an it went nineteen times roond an woddn't knot. 1922 Dial. Notes 5 172 Odd as Dick's hat band, used to describe a person who is peculiar. Aroostock, Maine. 1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child xiv. 157 They'll look as queer as Dick's hat-band, they will, the silly chubs. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways v. ix. 203 He came in a little oiled and then got tighter than Dick's hatband. 2014 C. B. McKenzie Bad Country 108 She's sharp as a tack when she wants to be and still tight as Dick's Hatband about her money. < as lemmas |
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