| 单词 | a purser's shirt on a handspike |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa purser's shirt on a handspike purser's shirt n. Nautical slang (now rare) only in a purser's shirt on a handspike: used as the type of something very ill-fitting. ΚΠ 1795 R. Cumberland Henry III. viii. iii. 134 You, with that lank carcase, for all the world like the purser's shirt upon a hand-spike. 1810 J. Moore Post-Captain v. 23 There is nothing of him left but ribs and trucks. His coat fits him like a purser's shirt upon a handspike. 1898 Outing July 389/2 A cruising craft with a slovenly or slatternly owner may, perhaps, be content with a suit of sails that fits like a purser's shirt on a handspike. 1942 T. H. Raddall His Majesty's Yankees vi. 50 Wearing his ill-fitting leadership like a purser's shirt on a handspike. < as lemmas |
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