| 单词 | on nettles |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(sitting) on (also †upon) nettles P4. Scottish. (sitting) on (also †upon) nettles: on tenterhooks, fidgety, uneasy. ΚΠ 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. viii. 225 ‘I have been upon nettles to hear what your reverence would say,’ continued Dame Glendinning, ‘respecting this matter.’ 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch ix. 77 We were all now sitting on nettles, for we were frighted that James would be seized with a cough. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains i. 56 Some of them were on nettles till they learned your name was Dickson. 1900 Weekly Free Press & Aberdeen Herald 19 May Mrs Middleton was kept on nettles the hale nicht. a1950 E. St. V. Millay Coll. Poems (1956) 573 Let still on nettles in the open sigh The minstrel, that in slumber is as mute As any man. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 305/1 Sittin on nettles, restless, ill at ease. < as lemmas |
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