单词 | into the boot |
释义 | > as lemmasinto the boot (buit) b. Scottish. to the boot, into the boot (buit). ΚΠ 1639 S. Rutherford Let. 1 Oct. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 478 Some who would exchange afflictions & give you to the boot. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 271 Alice, who..was, to the boot of all that, the best dancer of a strathspey in the whole strath. View more context for this quotation into the boot 9. As an addition or accession to: as into the bargain, into the boot (cf. bargain n.1 7, boot n.1 1). [Perhaps = ‘in, to the bargain’, ‘in, to boot’: compare in adv. 6] Π 1646 H. Moseley in J. Suckling Fragmenta Aurea To Rdr. sig. A3v A man may buy the reputation of some Authors into the price of their Volume. 1659 T. Willsford Architectonice 14 The spar-feet and Eaves-board, are in common building, measured into the whole Roof. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. ii I'll make her the best husband in the world, and Lady O' Trigger into the bargain. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus x. 121 A son-in-law with whom she had nothing in common, and who was a hairdresser into the bargain. < as lemmas |
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