| 单词 | knock down ginger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto knock down ginger British. to knock down ginger: to play ‘knock down ginger’ (knock down ginger n. at knock-down adj. and n. Additions). Now chiefly historical. [Origin uncertain: see discussion at knock down ginger n. at knock-down adj. and n. Additions.] ΚΠ 1912 G. Acorn One of Multitude 49 Our mildest trick was ‘knocking down Ginger’, in other words running through street after street banging the knockers of the houses. 1923 S. Graham Under London 363 It was not amusing now to ‘knock down Ginger’ or throw stones and run away. 1981 T. Morgan in T. Thompson Edwardian Childhoods i. 23 We was always in big trouble for what we called knocking down ginger, you know. Big line of us, knocking at doors and running away. knock down ginger knock down ginger n. British a game or prank in which children knock on a door and run away, or knock from a distance by means of a piece of string to a door knocker, so that it appears that nobody is there when the door is answered. [Origin uncertain: ginger may simply reflect a generic use of the nickname Ginger (compare ginger n. 4). Compare rat-tat ginger n. at rat-tat n., int., and adj. Compounds, rat-a-tat ginger n. at rat-a-tat int., n., and adj. Compounds, and earlier to knock down ginger at knock v. Additions. Other names such as knock knock ginger, knock out ginger, ginger knocking, etc., are also occasionally attested.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] rosy apple1882 doctors and nurses (also patients)1906 doctor1918 knock down ginger1959 rat-a-tat ginger1959 riprap1959 rat-tat ginger1962 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xviii. 378 In London and the Home Counties it is generally known as ‘Knock Down Ginger’. 1980 J. White Rothschild Buildings 181 Then there were the games directed against adults, like variations on Knock down Ginger where flats on opposite sides of a landing had their doors tied ‘and we used to..knock on the doors and the people would answer and couldn't open the doors’. 2004 M. Oke Times of our Lives 62 Then there was ‘Knock-down Ginger’, also sometimes known as ‘Knocking dollies out of bed’ with its associated rhyme: A house to let, A house to pay, Knock at the door And run away. < as lemmas |
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