| 单词 | more sacks to the mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmore sacks to the mill P2. more sacks to the mill and variants †(a) argument supplemented with argument or weight with weight (obsolete); (b) in children's play: a call made to indicate that a group of children should throw themselves on to an individual; the action of doing this (now New Zealand). ΚΠ 1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte 107 They may garlycke pyll Cary sackes to the myll. 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C2v To the next, to the next, more sacks to the Myll. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 136 When there was nothing to be done at home, your Lackies..would..fright me with Snakes, hang on my back, & weigh me downe, crying, More sackes to the Mill. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 403 Now, colonel, come sit down on my lap; more sacks upon the mill. 1811 S. T. Coleridge Let. 12 Oct. (1959) III. 338 Fortune seems to be playing ‘More Sacks on the Mill’ with me. 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases 112 Moor zacks to mill, a favourite game with children at Christmas time, when wishing for one of a romping character. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 201 Ordeals. The following ordeals, or ones similar, appear to be common to many schools in Britain... Piling On. This is done either ‘to hurt a person if he has done wrong’, after he has been forcibly thrown to the ground, or, as opportunity occurs, during rough play, when somebody accidentally falls... In New Zealand the common call is ‘Sacks to the mill’, a formula which was known in Oxfordshire until the end of the nineteenth century. < as lemmas |
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