| 单词 | a rod in pickle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa rod in pickle c. a rod in pickle (and variants): a punishment kept in reserve, ready to be inflicted when required. See also rod n.1 Phrases 1b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] > punishment in store a rod in pickle (also lye, piss)?1553 a rod in piss?1553 a rod in pickle1625 1625 B. Spenser Vox Civitatis 26 I feare God hath worse rods in pickell for you. 1689 Irish Hudibras 88 A little Devil..always has her Rods in pickle, If they presume, their Ribs to tickle. 1764 K. O'Hara Midas ii. 35 Well, master Pol I'll tickle, For him, at least, I have a rod in pickle. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 5 Mar. 135/2 He keeps for Pitt a rod in pickle. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) This is a threatening admonition for an idle or truant boy. ‘There's a stick i pickle for thee my lad.’ 1881 E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family II. vii It was only after the last good word of glad tidings had been said that the rod was taken out of the pickle. 1918 E. Pound in Sel. Ess. (1968) 410 So there are new rods in pickle for the old fat-stomached contingent and for the cardboard generation. 1996 Sporting Life (Nexis) 29 Feb. 5 FitzGerald has a couple of other rods in pickle for Cheltenham. a rod in pickle (also †lye, †piss) b. a rod in pickle (also †lye, †piss): a punishment in store. Cf. pickle n.1 1b. Now rare.See also to have a rod in stale at stale n.5 1b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] > punishment in store a rod in pickle (also lye, piss)?1553 a rod in piss?1553 a rod in pickle1625 ?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. v. 28 Some woulde in no wyse to owre desyres applye. But we have Roddes in pysse for them. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 118 I know One, that experimentally prooued what a rod in lye could do with the curstest boy in a Citty. 1648 J. Dillingham in Ld. Montagu of Beaulieu's P. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 163 No doubt there are many rods in pickle against many great ones. 1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 331 I see a Thousand Rods in Piss, and the whole Posse of diminutive Pedants against me. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 5 Mar. 135/2 He keeps for Pitt a rod in pickle. 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art II. 60 He has, as certainly, a rod in pickle for the idle and unruly. 1892 Deseret Weekly (Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 30 Apr. 609/3 The ‘rod in pickle’..which the agent of the Secret Service Department may have for some person or corporation, has no terrors for the ‘Mormon Church’. 1931 M. D. Calvocoressi Princ. & Methods Musical Crit. (ed. 2) i. ii. 37 The more definite the statements in a confession, the likelier the critic is to find that by uttering it he has laid a rod in pickle for himself. 1983 S. G. Bell & K. M. Offen Women, Family, & Freedom II. ix. 315 The liability of imprisonment for non-payment of maintenance remains..a rod in pickle for impetuous lovers. < as lemmas |
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