| 单词 | bag of bones |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbag of bones a. bag of bones: an emaciated living being. the whole bag of tricks: every expedient, everything (in allusion to the fable of ‘the Fox and the Cat’). Also bag of tricks, stock of resources; sometimes with play on other senses of ‘bag’ (old woman, etc.). in the bottom of the bag: remaining as a last resource or expedient. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [phrase] > as a last resource in the bottom of the bag1659 the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having staffc1405 notomy1487 rakea1529 crag1542 scrag1542 sneakbill1546 starveling1546 slim1548 ghost1590 bald-rib1598 bare-bone1598 bow-case1599 atomy1600 sneaksbill1602 thin-gut1602 anatomya1616 sharg1623 skeleton1630 raw-bone1635 living skeleton1650 strammel1706 scarecrow1711 rickle of bones1729 shargar1754 squeeze-crab1785 rack of bones1804 thread-paper1824 bag of bones1838 dry-bones1845 skinnymalink1870 hairpin1879 slim jim1889 skinny1907 underweight1910 asthenic1925 ectomorph1940 skinny-malinky1957 matchstick1959 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources facultya1382 myance?a1513 moyen1547 facility1555 means1560 resource1611 foisona1616 wherewith1674 asset1677 stock-in-tradea1806 wherewithal1809 possibles1823 bag of tricks1841 potential1941 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient > every expedient the whole bag of tricks1874 1659 Reynolds in T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 447 If this be done, which is in the bottom of the bag, and must be done, we shall..be able to buoy up our reputation. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. iv. 64 There, get down stairs, little bag o' bones. 1841 E. Wright tr. La Fontaine Fables (ed. 2) xii. xviii. 314 But fox, in arts of siege well versed, Ransacked his bag of tricks accursed. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. iii. 204 I am almost ashamed to punish A bag of skin and bones. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 76 Bag of tricks, refers to the whole of a means towards a result. ‘That's the whole bag of tricks.’ 1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 29 May 2/6 She relied largely for her acting on the exploitation of what is nothing but a bag of tricks. 1898 A. Bennett Man From North xvi. 152 I've had three 3 a.m. midwifery cases this week—forceps, chloroform, and the whole bag of tricks. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) iii. ii. §3 301 Learn the whole bag of tricks in six months. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 135 She was a nice old bag of tricks. 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. viii. 185 A being who completely robbed the world of its importance, ‘snooped’, as it were, the whole ‘bag of tricks’. 1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xiii. 280 Men were all alike. A woman didn't have to carry a very big bag of tricks to achieve her purpose. 1942 ‘P. Wentworth’ Danger Point xl. 233 Fingerprints... A nice bag of tricks for our modern scientific police. You put 'em in a hat and shake 'em up, and then you put in your hand and pick your murderer. 1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-up iii. 37 The make-up kit is the artist's tool box and bag of tricks. < as lemmas |
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