| 单词 | it is domino |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit is domino (with) d. interjectionally: (see quots.). Also substantive (see quot. 1874); it is domino (with), it is all up (with), it is the end (of), it is finished (for). slang. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > the end [interjection] domino1862 1862 B. Brierley Tales & Sketches Lancs. Life 26 What dost think abeawt Sebastypol bein' takken?.. Aw'll bet thi a quart o'ale ut it's domino wi' it neaw. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 123 Domino, a common ejaculation of soldiers and sailors when they receive the last lash of a flogging. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 147 A domino means either a blow, or the last of a series of things, whether pleasant or otherwise. 1882 Notes & Queries 25 Mar. 229/2 Probably most Londoners have often heard 'bus conductors cry ‘Domino’ when an omnibus is ‘full in and out’. 1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 305/2 Domino, an ejaculation of completion: e.g., for sailors and soldiers at the last lash of a flogging; also, by implication, a knock-down blow, or the last of a series. (From the call at the end of a game of dominoes.) 1894 J. T. Clegg David's Loom xxi. 245 It'll be domino for me neaw. 1898 Daily News 10 Feb. 7/5 The young delinquent sullenly declared that James struck him first, whereupon he ‘gave him domino for himself’. 1911 A. Bennett Hilda Lessways v. ii. 330 I've..paid the cheque! So it's domino, now! 1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 45/1 I thought it was domino with me and my little schemes. < as lemmas |
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