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单词 on hot bricks
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on hot bricks
1. In plural. on hot bricks: in a state of anxiety, agitation, or restlessness. Chiefly in similative phrase like a cat on hot bricks.
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the world > movement > bodily movement > [phrase] > nimble movement
like a cat on hot bricks1840
the world > movement > restlessness > [phrase] > state of extreme restlessness
as nervous as a witch1853
like a cat on hot bricks1886
1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 285 To go like a cat upon a hot bake-stone.]
1840 Female Freemasons I. 157 Mrs. Talbot was on hot bricks;..what reports might not be spread in Seaforth the next day?
1854 Times 19 May 9/4 The coachman represented her to be ‘like a cat on hot bricks’.
1886 ‘J. S. Winter’ Army Society xvi Lady Mainwaring looked..like a cat on hot bricks.
1958 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock 165 Crook also was like a cat on hot bricks.
1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile iii. 45 Having become accustomed to this kind of thing myself,..I have lost that cat-on-hot-bricks feeling which I must have had at one time.
2006 Northern Echo (Nexis) 28 July 10 I've come to talk to her at her home,..and yet she's nervous, a woman on hot bricks.
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