| 单词 | on the stocks |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the stocks b. figurative, esp. in phrase on the stocks, said e.g. of a literary work planned and commenced. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] to be in making?a1425 to be a-making1492 in the making1644 on the stocks1669 1669 W. Carr Pluto Furens Ep. Ded. Until my other Play be finished, which is now on the Stocks. 1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant iv. i. 62 Farewel; you know I have other business upon the Stocks. 1765 S. Foote Commissary ii. 43 I made these rhimes into a duet for a new comic opera I have on the stocks. 1783 Virginia Hist. Mag. 5 390 I'm desirous to provide in the best manner I possibly can for my wife, a son, two daughters, and a child which I expect is in the stocks. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxxi. 294 A worthy elder, shocked at the scandal of such a numerous illegal progeny being all ‘on the stocks’ at once, waited on his pastor to condole upon the subject. 1836 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) II. 163 I have had a long letter on the stocks for you for the last fortnight. 1868 E. FitzGerald Lett. I. 315 We shouldn't go off the stocks easy (pardon nautical metaphors). 1898 Athenæum 4 June 724/1 The ‘Encyclopædia Britannica’, the ninth edition of which was on the point of being put on the stocks. < as lemmas |
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