| 单词 | little go candidate |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslittle go candidate General attributive, as (sense 1) little go act, (sense 2) little go candidate, little go examination, etc. ΚΠ 1802 Sporting Mag. July 181/2 (heading) Little-go act. 1833 Remarks upon Mr. Beverley's Let. to Duke of Gloucester 9 The Little-go examination.., without which it is impossible to go in for a degree. 1840 Cambr. Univ. Mag. 1 197 Such of our readers as may at present be Little-Go candidates in embryo. 1868 Light Blue 3 187 The old Paley sheet..touched only upon the first nine chapters—now barely sufficient for a Little-Go pass. 1883 Knowledge 2 Mar. 138/2 ‘Magistrates conniving at certain periodical religious riots’ (so ran one of his Little-go questions..), [etc.]. 1908 Antiquary 44 306/1 Mr. Hesse..had much to do with the enforcement of the ‘Little-go Act’ from the first. 1927 B. Stephen Emily Davies & Girton College 281 Her place in chaperoning a Little-go candidate to Cambridge was taken by Miss Manning. 2005 A. Brown J. D. Bernal i. 20 He was..required to go back to Cambridge in the spring of 1919 to take the ‘Little Go’ exam in Latin. < as lemmas |
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