| 单词 | like the mill-tails of hell |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike the mill-tails of hell 2. Chiefly U.S. regional. In similative and figurative use, denoting rapid movement, furious activity, or violent, unstoppable force. Frequently in like the mill-tails of hell and variants (cf. like the clappers at clapper n.1 3a). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] fenc888 longayne1340 sloven's inn?1518 slut's corner1570 sink1590 Augean stable1596 spittle1624 spital1771 expectoratory1836 mill-tail1854 stable1903 pisshole1928 1805 J. Whitehouse Jrnl. 13 Oct. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1997) XI. 351 The River..ran as swift as Water from a Mill tail.] 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Apr. 440/1 My blood is running like mill-tails through the swollen veins and the arteries throb almost to bursting. 1914 Dial. Notes 4 76 Mill tail o' thunder, like the, see ‘hell-bent an' crooked’ [in a swift, disorderly, excited manner]. 1923 Dial. Notes 5 214 The creek's a-runnin' like the mill tails o' hell. 1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn vi. 62 On a grade like this, you could drag the wheels and still be goin' like the milltails of hell. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) ix. 171 If the priests were right..Busse, as a card-carrying Communist, was doomed to the foulest mill tails of hell. 1988 J. McPhee in Control of Nature (1989) 255 The water can go down there like the milltails of Hell. < as lemmas |
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