| 单词 | letter in the post office |
| 释义 | > as lemmasletter in the post office P4. U.S. slang. letter in the post office: a hole in the seat of a person's trousers through which the clothing underneath is visible. Now rare. ΚΠ 1833 N.-Y. Mirror 7 Dec. 181/2 The husband's coat had a rent in the back, his hat was brimless and crownless, his trousers—‘He had a letter in the post-office’—and his shoes ‘had seen better days’. 1855 S. A. Hammett Wonderful Adventures Captain Priest 28 That something white which is fluttering in the breeze from his midships is..merely a bit of linen which under such circumstances is known to our gamins as ‘a letter in the post office’. 1894 Dial. Notes 1 341 Letter in the post-office, expression current among boys, denoting that the seat of the trousers is so out of repair that the shirt-tail is visible. 1953 C. Sandburg Always Young Strangers i. 19 Always there were clothes to be patched, the boys sometimes wearing out a third seat of trousers and having the other kids hollering, when the shirttail stuck out, ‘There's a letter in the post office for you!’ 1976 Callaloo Dec. 26 When one's clothes are caught in the buttock, he has a ‘letter in the post office’, or is ‘cutting a patch’. < as lemmas |
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