单词 | like a hen on a het girdle |
释义 | > as lemmaslike a hen on a het (hot) girdle b. Phrase. like a hen on a het (hot) girdle: indicating a state of great uneasiness or discomfort. ΚΠ 1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 It's true, she's..tipper-taipers when she taks the gate first like..a hen on a het girdle. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xxiii. 351 The Baillie..had all this while shifted from one foot to another with great impatience, ‘like a hen’, as he afterwards said, ‘upon a het girdle’. View more context for this quotation 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. viii. 181 His gait..emulated that of a hen treading a hot girdle.] < as lemmas |
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