| 单词 | on all fives |
| 释义 | > as lemmason all fives 1. humorous. on all fives: on hands, knees (or feet), and another part of the body (later esp. the buttocks). Cf. on (also upon) all fours at all fours n. 1. In later use chiefly in the contexts of hiking, climbing, etc. ΚΠ 1793 Monthly Rev. Sept. 16 He thinks that..instead of going ‘on all fours,’ ‘we should stand on our heads too’: that is, on all fives. 1852 Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 9 409/1 He took a leap out of a window into the kitchen-garden, and..he came down nearly on all fives, for, besides resting on his hands and feet, his nose was within an inch of the ground. 1942 R. M. Lockley Shearwaters vi. 65 There he scrambles up the shelving sandstone on all fives. a1944 W. A. White Autobiogr. (1946) xxiv. 174 You go up 2,000 [feet] on all fours, creeping and climbing along crevices and cracks in almost perpendicular rocks. You come down on all fives. 2008 G. Latter Sc. Rock I. 39/2 The west side of the Pinnacle summit... Descend the same line on all fives! < as lemmas |
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