| 单词 | more than you can shake a stick at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmore than you can shake a stick at b. figurative. Chiefly in phrases. †to shake boast: to boast, swagger. to shake the feather: see feather n. 8b. more than you can shake a stick at (and vars.): more than one can count, a considerable amount or number (colloquial, originally and chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)] yelpc888 kebc1315 glorify1340 to make avauntc1340 boast1377 brag1377 to shake boastc1380 glorya1382 to make (one's) boastc1385 crackc1470 avaunt1471 glaster1513 voust1513 to make (one's or a) vauntc1515 jet?1521 vaunt?1521 crowa1529 rail1530 devauntc1540 brave1549 vaunt1611 thrasonize1619 vapour1629 ostentate1670 goster1673 flourish1674 rodomontade1681 taper1683 gasconade1717 stump1721 rift1794 mang1819 snigger1823 gab1825 cackle1847 to talk horse1855 skite1857 to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859 to shoot off one's mouth1864 spreadeagle1866 swank1874 bum1877 to sound off1918 woof1934 to shoot a line1941 to honk off1952 to mouth off1958 blow- the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > impossible to number [phrase] out of numberc1325 without numberc1325 out of all scotch and notch1589 more than you can shake a stick at1818 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3645 After hym folwede & schoke bost xxxti þowsant on an host. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lix Thou shakest boste [L. jactas] ofte of hir foly in vayne. 1818 Lancaster (Pa.) Jrnl. 5 Aug. 3/1 We have in Lancaster as many Taverns as you can shake a stick at. 1826 J. C. Neal Peter Brush I've..got more black eyes..than you could shake a stick at. 1835 D. Crockett Col. Crockett's Tour Down East 87 This was a temperance house, and there was nothing to treat a friend to that was worth shaking a stick at. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xii. 86 Our queen snake was..retiring, attended by more of her subjects than we even dared to shake a stick at. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. viii. 21 A reckless star Seemed shaking over him malific powers. 1904 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Eri iv. 56 There's more Snows in Nantucket than you can shake a stick at. 1928 S. Lewis Man who knew Coolidge ii. 131 There was more posters and banners..than you could shake a stick at. 1939 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside xxi. 137 I had more beaus than you could shake a stick at. 1960 ‘E. McBain’ Give Boys Great Big Hand (1962) iv. 32 We get more damn cancellations than you can shake a stick at. 1982 Folio Spring 4 More consuls and dictators hanging from her family tree than a prudent man would shake a bundle of twigs at. < as lemmas |
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