| 单词 | on the knocker |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the knocker e. One who buys from, or sells to, persons at their residences; a door-to-door salesman; also, the action of selling (etc.) from door to door. on the knocker (and variants), (engaged in buying from, selling to, or canvassing) from door to door; also, (obtained) on credit. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar pedder1166 pedlar1307 dustyfoota1400 tranter1500 hawker1510 jagger?1518 jowter1550 pedder-coffec1550 pedderman1552 petty chapman1553 swadder1567 packman1571 merchant1572 swigman1575 chapman?1593 aginator1623 crier1727 duffer1735 Jew pedlar1743 fogger1800 Jew1803 box wallah1826 packie1832 cadger1840 jolter1841 pack-pedlar1859 knocker1934 doorstepper1976 machinga1993 society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [adverb] > on credit to fristc1440 on (also upon, of) trust1509 on (also upon) credit1560 in, upon, on (the) score1568 on time1628 on or upon (the) tick1642 upon the tally1807 on the nod1882 on the slate1909 on the cuff1927 on the knocker1934 society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > itinerantly peddling1532 door-to-door1902 on the knocker1959 1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack xiii. 166 A ‘knocker-worker’ is one who sells things at people's front doors. 1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack xv. 186 ‘The knocker's the only game in the winter’ said London Joe. 1936 Evening News 11 Dec. 11/1 A valued and regular lady customer drives up..and..orders petrol..finds she has left her handbag at home... The hand..yells out: ‘Oi, there's a lidy 'ere wants some juice on the knocker!’ 1959 Listener 7 May 802/2 That record of progress in Blackpool shows what can be done if we work, in the first place, as our canvassers say, on the knocker. 1959 G. Savage Antique Collector's Handbk. 156 ‘Knockers’ are jewellery and antique dealers who operate by calling from door to door in search of something to buy, and their purchases are sold to larger dealers. 1960 A. Prior in Pick of Today's Short Stories XI. 185 If I kept getting as much jewellery for him on the knocker then perhaps he wouldn't have to sell. 1963 J. F. Straker Final Witness viii. 81 Once she got a whole pile of stuff on the knocker, and then the firm came and took it back. a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) ix. 116 I've worked the knocker if you know what that means—the door-to-door selling racket. 1967 Sun 17 July 7/2 The ‘knocker boys’..trick old ladies into parting with family heirlooms for a fraction of their value. 1970 Sunday Times 18 Jan. 37 A knocker was a specially trained salesman working, not under the authority and generally not in the pay of a district sales agent, but for the company itself, out of the Dayton executive offices. < as lemmas |
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