| 单词 | on the hog |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the hog P7. U.S. slang. on the hog (in early use also on the hog train): living and travelling as a tramp or vagrant; (hence) destitute, impoverished. Cf. hog train n. at Compounds 2a. ΚΠ 1893 Railroad Trainmen's Jrnl. Aug. 685/1 Take something to kill that train fever or we all be on the hog train in another year or two. 1894 C. B. Lawlor & J. W. Blake Sidewalks of N.Y. (sheet music) 3 Others they are on the hog, But they all feel just like me. 1901 ‘J. Flynt’ World of Graft iii. 103 There's only one of my old gang that's got any money to-day, an' he's the fellow in London. The rest are all dead or on the hog. 1921 San Francisco Chron. 10 Dec. 22/6 His former subjects turned him down, and he is on the hog train now. 1965 J. M. Brewer Worser Days 59 He up dere in New York City on de ‘hog’. 2002 E. J. Cotton Hobo viii. 110 If they're on the hog, it's usually because they got themselves there and the only way they know to get out is to lie, cheat, steal, and fight. < as lemmas |
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