| 单词 | monkey on a stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmonkey on a stick monkey on a stick n. a toy consisting of the figure of a monkey attached to a stick up and down which it can be moved; chiefly figurative or in figurative context as the type of a restless or agitated person. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > other figures > [noun] > movable by string or wire puppet1538 marionettea1645 pantine1748 supplejack1776 supple Tam1825 string-jack1863 jumping-jack1883 monkey on a stick1926 1863 Tyneside Songs 18 In these days he was a regular brick, When he seld the munkeys up the stick. 1874 ‘Max Adeler’ Out of Hurly-burly viii. 96 Willie had a purple monkey climbing on a yellow stick. 1890 R. Kipling Let. in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) v. 157 The blandishments of the people to whom a new writer-man is as a new purple monkey on a yellow stick.] 1926 W. de la Mare Connoisseur & Other Stories 317 I went bobbing over its boulders and chasms like a jack-in-a-box or a monkey-on-a-stick. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 8 The monkey on a stick, often used to indicate someone very fidgety and restless. 1966 G. Butler Nameless Coffin xii. 192 A ‘monkey’ is a man who has never been in prison..but is the known associate of criminals. He is a monkey on a stick and it is usually only a matter of time before his stick breaks and he's down there with his friends. 1988 J. Neel Death's Bright Angel v. 39 We are in trouble and that's why I'm in London again. I'm not usually up and down like a monkey on a stick. < as lemmas |
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