单词 | at or up to one's tricks |
释义 | > as lemmasat or (now more usually) up to one's (old) tricks 7. A particular habit, way, or mode of acting; a characteristic quality, trait, practice, or custom. (Usually, a bad or unpleasant habit.) at or (now more usually) up to one's (old) tricks, misbehaving or plotting mischief in one's characteristic way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > characteristic qualitya1400 trick1576 way1671 knack1674 ways?1687 Pretty Fanny's waya1718 shtick1948 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > act in one's habitual way at or (now more usually) up to one's (old) tricks1823 to run to (also true to, up to) form1843 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Plinius Novocomensis in Panoplie Epist. 244 It is not my propertie to be enuious against other (which is a tricke incident to a great number). 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 129 A maide of ripe yeeres, who is hardlie brought to..leaue her olde ill tricks, if she haue taken anie. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. ii. 11 The Foxe, Who neuer so tame, so cherisht, and lockt vp, Will haue a wilde tricke of his ancesters. View more context for this quotation 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xii. 251 The lazy trick of the wild Irish..who to save pains, burn the straw, so to part the grain from it. 1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 25 The danger in great Schools of..learning ill Tricks. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 8. ⁋5 My Valet de Chambre knows my University-Trick of reading there [i.e. in Bed]. 1754 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) v. 35 The trick of laughing frivolously is by all means to be avoided. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1739 I. 76 [J. Reynolds:] Those motions or tricks of Dr. Johnson are improperly called convulsions. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. i. 15 Aweel, and I trust he is not at his auld tricks again, goodwife. 1863 H. E. P. Spofford Amber Gods 206 ‘You are at your old tricks again!’ said he. 1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Mar. 220/2 The Wey..has a trick of overflowing its banks. 1898 G. B. Shaw Man of Destiny 181 What do you mean? Eh? Are you at your tricks again? Do you think I dont know what these papers contain? 1935 Time 7 Jan. 55/1 She and Dill are soon up to their old tricks. < as lemmas |
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