| 单词 | on the street |
| 释义 | > as lemmason (also †upon) the street(s) Phrases P1. in the street(s): outside the house, outdoors; (also) out of doors in a town or city. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [phrase] > in the open air in the street(s)a1400 in the weathera1513 in overt1599 sub dio1602 in fresco1620 on (also upon) the street(s)1653 sub jove frigido1806 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2772 He praid þam..Þai wald to gestening com hame,..and þai said nai, Bot in the stret þar duell wald þai. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4546 Þan sal þair bodys..In þe stretes ligg stille thre days And an half,..For na man sal þam dur biry. a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) l. 1556 (MED) Þe dore ful stalworthly he sperd..And lete his whif stand in þe strete. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 193 (MED) As he walkyd yn þe strete, he herd a womon cry trauelyng on chyld. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 26 Diogenes..being asked why he eate openlie in the streete, answered because he was an hungered in the streete. 1582 W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. D8v He was apprehended in the streats of London ready to goe ouer to the seminarie at Remes. 1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 333 They expose to public view in the Streets..many infamous naked Pictures, and Grotesques, to cause laughter. 1714 Spectator No. 570. ⁋1 You may often see an Artist in the Streets gain a Circle of Admirers by carrying a long Pole upon his Chin. 1883 J. C. Jeaffreson Real Ld. Byron I. 260 On leaving parties, to which she had not been invited, he found her waiting for him in the street. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 15/3 ‘Gentlemen’, said I, ‘you don't know anything about me, so I'll tell you. I'm just out of jail, and—’ About a minute later I found myself outside, in the street. 2006 Nexus (U.K./Europe ed.) Feb. 11/2 Get your flu shot. Every autumn. Don't wait. You might fall over dead in the street! ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] > copiously to weep one's fill or bellyfula1290 to weep out one's eyes heartc1290 forweepa1375 to weep full a streeta1413 to cry (also weep, etc.) one's eyes outa1450 bawl1605 cry1705 to cry (also sob, weep, etc.) one's heart out1732 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 929 What helpeþ it to wepen ful a strete, Or þough ye boþe in salte teris drenche? P3. to walk the street(s): to go about on foot in a town, to roam at large in the streets; spec. (with reference to prostitutes) = to be (also to go) on (or †upon) the street(s) at Phrases 4b (cf. streetwalker n. 2, streetwalking n.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in the streets to beat the streetsc1375 to walk the street(s)1530 vicambulate1873 society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale > solicit custom for > by travelling to business area to walk the street(s)1530 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > practise prostitution to walk the street(s)1530 to play the harlot (formerly also harlots)1535 whore1547 strumpc1550 strumpet1627 prostitute1631 to be (also to go) on (or upon) the street(s)1754 hustle1930 ho1972 tom1981 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 770/2 In dede you walke the stretes. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 1112 Certein companions which doe nothing but walke the streets. 1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. K3v Each swaggering Ruffin now that walk's the streetes, Proud as Lucifer, stabbeth whom he meetes. 1709 T. Hearne in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) I. 193 There has been a person in Oxford, who saw her walk the street since this amazing accident. 1714 E. Budgell tr. Theophrastus Moral Characters xxiv. 69 When he walks the Streets, he never Condescends to look about him, or to know any one he meets. 1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 230 While all your smutty sisters walk the streets. 1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. ii. 54 How likely is it, that..you would be deserted by those base wretches your seducers! You know I have often wept,..lest you should come to walk London Streets. 1824 Lancet 12 June 335/2 The unfortunate female will also tell you that she continued to walk the streets, night after night. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table viii. 225 When a lady walks the streets..she knows well enough that the street is a picture-gallery, where pretty faces..are meant to be seen, and everybody has a right to see them. 1891 E. B. Clark Twelve Months Peru iii. 55 It is considered highly improper for a Limeña, either married or single, to walk the streets alone. 1908 S. E. White Riverman xvii The remainder of the time he spent walking the streets and reading in the club rooms. 1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 236 Many of the younger prostitutes who walk the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill are under their control. 1998 P. Gourevitch We wish to inform You xvi. 245 There are many more killers still walking the streets than we have in prison. P4. on (also †upon) the street(s). a. Originally Scottish and U.S. = in the street(s) at Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [phrase] > in the open air in the street(s)a1400 in the weathera1513 in overt1599 sub dio1602 in fresco1620 on (also upon) the street(s)1653 sub jove frigido1806 OE Ælfric Homily: De Duodecim Abusivis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 302 Ne flit he mid ceaste, ne sace ne astyreð ne on strætum [lOE Vesp. D.xiv on stræte] ne gehyrð ænig mann hys stemne.] 1653 T. Urquhart Logopandecteision iv. 74 I saw at Madrid a bald-pated fellow, who beleeved he was Julius Caesar, and therefore went constantly on the streets with a Laurel Crown on his head. 1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Sept. 447/1 The deponent..met William Stewart upon the street. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. v. 47 He recognised me on the streets, and spoke to me seven months after. 1883 C. D. Warner Roundabout Journey 37 The young women are on the street with babies; the old ones sit by the doors of their little shops or their houses and knit. 1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home iii. 20 They say that New-Yorkers never meet each other on the street. 2006 Touch Dec. 35/3 When I'm out on the street I get more people coming up to me saying ‘I love your music’ or ‘I felt you’. b. to be (also to go) on (or †upon) the street(s): to be a prostitute. Cf. to walk the street(s) at Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > practise prostitution to walk the street(s)1530 to play the harlot (formerly also harlots)1535 whore1547 strumpc1550 strumpet1627 prostitute1631 to be (also to go) on (or upon) the street(s)1754 hustle1930 ho1972 tom1981 1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act II. 228 By Heavens! I would rather hear of her being on the Streets of London, than married to so vile a Fellow. 1802 H. Martin Helen of Glenross III. 82 To be..accompanied by any woman, not absolutely on the streets, is a point to her, whom scarce one does not feel unwilling to appear publicly with. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 60/2 Two girls, who..had been forced to go upon the streets to gain a living. 1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal xiii They went into service, and when they found that they were expected to dust chairs and wash up breakfast things they went on the streets. 2002 W. Kennedy Roscoe 99 ‘She's a working girl’, Roscoe said. ‘She's been on the street ever since I know [sic] her’. c. on the streets: turned out of doors, homeless.figurative in quot. 1852. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > homeless homelessOE harbourlessc1175 innlessa1325 houseless1357 placelessa1387 on the pavéc1450 unharbouredc1450 roomless1548 dishousedc1595 dislodged1602 unhouseda1616 unlodged1634 bedless1707 on the pavement1743 roofless1797 on (also upon) the street(s)1832 unhomed1839 dishomed1880 dwellingless1882 homesteadless1885 1832 Times 22 Mar. 2/6 The young ‘vagrants’ at West Ham are between 10 and 15 years of age. They might as well be on the streets as maintained in idleness in Mr Wilson's institution. 1852 J. Anderson in Lit. Gaz. 3 Jan. 12/2 The door of the church..opened, and there issued forth Chalmers and Welsh,..and the Church of Scotland was on the streets, and free. 1876 Votes & Proc. (New S. Wales L. A.) VI. 856 A number of youngsters were on the streets; they used to sleep about the wharves, lived on thieving. 1940 F. D. Davison Woman at Mill ii. 151 I found myself on the streets again, without a brass razoo. 2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) xi. 243 Most of those on the streets are so demoralised that they have come to believe punishment is no more than they deserve. d. on the street. (a) Originally U.S. slang. Outside prison, at liberty (cf. sense A. 3f). ΚΠ 1915 Boston Daily Globe 19 Dec. 37/1 If one gets in, his friends and his lawyer do what they can to ‘put him on the street’—to testify or exonerate him. 1928 S. Weyman Lively Peggy (1931) vi. 53 Haven't you heard, miss? That his son's on the street again? 1935 N. Ersine Underworld & Prison Slang 73 Street, n., figuratively, freedom. ‘Another year will see him on the street.’ 1951 W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun iii. 251 They worked their fines out on the street. 1994 Time 7 Feb. 58/1 In many inner-city neighborhoods, young men regard prison time as more a rite of passage than a deterrent... Once back on the street, these youths enjoy an enhanced status. (b) slang. With reference to the sale or acquisition of drugs: by illegal trafficking, when offered or sold on the streets. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [adverb] > illicit trafficking on (also upon) the street(s)1979 1979 Guardian 30 Oct. 8/5 We have either an extremely successful therapeutic service, or people are obtaining the drugs which they want ‘on the street’. 2005 Guardian 15 Nov. i. 3/1 Police chiefs and the government have commissioned separate studies into methamphetamine, or crystal meth, known on the street as ‘ice’, ‘meth’ ‘Tina’ and ‘Nazi crank’. (c) colloquial. Out of work, unemployed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > not working or unemployed servicelessc1450 unlabouredc1450 masterless1471 unwrought1550 unplaced1558 labourless1576 flag-fallen1609 unlabouring1619 disemployed1651 hireless1651 unengaged1654 unemployed1667 unworking1696 untoiling1748 workless1758 occupationless1822 placeless1828 out of work1833 non-working1841 unhired1852 jobless1862 out of (or in) collar1862 non-employed1876 spare1919 on the beach1923 in dry dock1927 off-the-job1950 on (also upon) the street(s)1980 unwaged1981 1980 J. Wainwright Venus Fly-trap 12 It's my living, too... If I upset that crowd, I could be on the street. 1993 D. Coyle Hardball iv. iv. 178 There was an increasing possibility that the management would be ousted. ‘It's tough to tell what all that could mean’, Bill said. ‘But if they clean house, I could be on the street’. P5. the man in the street (also the man on the street): the ordinary or average man (or, in extended use, person), esp. as distinguished from the expert or specialist. Similarly the woman in the street. Also attributive (usually hyphenated). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > ordinary or average man Richard Roe1593 Tom Stiles1681 John Doe1756 the man in the street1831 the next man1848 Everyman1901 the man on the Clapham omnibus1903 slob1910 John Citizen1918 average Joe1940 Joe Blow1941 Joe Public1942 Joe Doakes1943 Joe Soap1943 Joe Bloggs1969 Joe Sixpack1972 everyguy1976 the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > ordinary or average woman the woman in the street1831 Everywoman1903 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people Jackc1390 fellowa1400 commonerc1400 populara1525 plebeianc1550 ungentle1562 Tom Tiler1582 roturier1586 vulgarity1646 little man1707 pleb1795 man of the people1799 the man in the street1831 snob1831 man1860 oickman1925 1770 Appeal to Public on Behalf S. Vaughan 83 He..supposed the noble duke at the head of the treasury..was something different from a man in the street. 1795 Trial J. H. Tooke 379 The Judges upon the Bench have no more right to transgress it [sc. a statute] than any man in the street.] 1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 22 Mar. (1874) II. 131 The other [side affirms] that the King will not consent to it, knowing, as ‘the man in the street’ (as we call him at Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings. 1854 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Wks. (1906) III. 192 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong, nor can you mend it by making it what you call parliamentary. 1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. v. 259 It is the man in the street and the democracy generally that the fall of a Ministry fails to move. 1900 A. M. Fairbairn in Examiner 21 June 327/2 The man in the street..may be a very excellent person, but his very ordinariness puts a long way between him and an ample and distinguished manhood. 1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. xi. 305 She had the political cynicism of the woman in the street. 1928 Amer. Speech 4 134 The American newspaper man..speaks a patois bewildering to the man on the street. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio vii. 130 A sort of convention has arisen whereby ‘man-in-the-street’ interviews are cut together by simple editing. 1973 Observer 4 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 15/4 He really wanted to please the man on the street and the man on the street knew it. 2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 41 Those who purport to speak on behalf of the customer, the ordinary Joe, the regular gal, the man in the street. P6. a. the length of a street: (used as the type of) a considerable or great length or distance. ΚΠ 1860 A. Robins Miriam May (ed. 3) xii. 262 I could go, were I so minded, and write all Lord Diskount had so written, and more like to it by the length of a street. 1893 Kennel Gaz. Aug. 213/2 Kitty of Coleshill was just the best of the bunch [of setters], but there was not the length of a street between her and Sister Gabrielle. 1956 Times 21 July 7 It was emphatically a perfectly fair course... We won the event ‘by the length of a street’, and none of our horses fell. 2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Sport section) 12 Leicester lost their opening fixture last season and still won their fourth straight title by the length of a street. b. not to be in the same street (with or as): to be far behind in a race or competition, to be far inferior to. ΚΠ 1883 M. E. Kennard Right Sort xx Nevertheless, though not in the same street with King Olaf, it won't do to estimate Singing Bird's chance too lightly. 1912 Throne 7 Aug. 227/1 The race will be over by the time these notes appear in print, but..I do not think Pinks will finish in the same street as the holder. 1932 Times 8 Aug. 12 Barnaby's tune..may be a ‘feeble tune’ and not in the same street as Vaughan Williams's, yet I venture to think that the vast majority..approved the choice of the older tune for this particular occasion. 2000 Mirror (Nexis) 26 Oct. 66 The only guy I've come across who even comes close to matching Flintoff's power was the South African Adrian Kuiper, but even he wasn't in the same street as Freddie. c. streets ahead (also better): far ahead of someone or something, far superior. ΚΠ 1885 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 10 Oct. 6/6 M J Hayes..won streets ahead of a very weak opposition. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 6/3 The English are better photographers than the Americans, but as regards mechanical ingenuity..the latter are streets ahead. 1911 Times 22 Apr. 8 In the matter of nutriment Manitobas were ‘streets’ ahead of any flour that could be produced from English wheat. 1958 Times 27 Oct. 4 His distribution was streets better than that of Greenwood, who was always in trouble. 2005 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. b 5 The company [sc. Toyota] is streets ahead of GM on profitability. d. by a street: by a wide margin (originally of a sporting victory). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a great extent or by far great quantityc1330 far forthly1362 by farc1380 well awayc1390 by half?a1400 by mucha1450 far (and) away1546 by a great sort1579 to stand head and shoulders abovea1683 (by) a long way1741 by a jugful1831 by all odds1832 by a long, damn, etc., sight1834 out and away1834 (by) a long chalk1835 by chalks1835 by long chalks1835 by a street1886 a whole lot1886 1886 City of London School Mag. 10 166 [Monroe's] best performance was the Quarter Mile under fourteen, which he ‘won by a street’. 1896 Fores's Sporting Notes 13 4 ‘Won by a street,’ repeated Dick, thoughtfully... ‘Well, I'll buy him, then, and if he can't win the Grand Annual, I shall be very much astonished.’ 1952 Times 13 Aug. 2 Compton fought the spin of Laker..with all the skill and experience at his command... Had Compton gone Surrey would have been home by a street. 1982 Age Monthly Rev. (Melbourne) Mar. 11/3 Any label embracing such a wide range of usage is too wide by a street. 2000 M. Beaumont e 165 They'd done a campaign for 7UP... It was the best thing they had by a street. P7. to take to the streets: to assemble in a public place in order to engage in a political revolt or protest. ΚΠ 1883 A. Palmer Oration 17 When the French revolutionists of 1792 took to the streets, they meant to change..the organic structure of their government. 1938 G. Hicks I like Amer. iv. 61 Neither the press nor the radio is open to the poor, and when they take to the streets they are met with clubs. 1982 Listener 23 Dec. 5/3 People had begun to take to the streets, defying martial law, tear-gas, water-cannon and bullets. 2006 Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 3 Apr. The..point that made the students take to the streets was hearing..politicians wanting to pass laws that labeled them as felons. P8. to be up (down, †in) one's street: to be well suited to one's tastes, interests, or abilities (cf. to be (right) up (also down) one's alley at alley n.1 Phrases). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > be suitable, appropriate, or suit [verb (intransitive)] > suit a person to sit loose1591 to be up (down, in) one's street1903 to be (right) up (also down) one's alley1922 to meet up with1972 1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. i. 10/1 Street.., a capacity, a method; a line: e.g. ‘That's not in my street’ = ‘I am not concerned’ or ‘That's not my way of doing,’ etc. 1929 Publishers' Weekly 21 Dec. 2813/2 A great many of the books published today are, as the saying is, right up her street. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. iv. 259 She is a jolly attractive girl, the sort of girl any chap would be glad to have—artistic, too, just down your street. 1960 L. Cooper Accomplices i. vi. 55 John Pollard got me the job and..I loved it... It was right up my street. 1977 It May 28/1 If you like Miles Davis's ‘In a Silent Way’ then Don Cherry has a new release which is just up your street. 2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xiv. 150 What I have in mind is right up your street. Usual hidden cameras, big exposé. P9. to play (also work) both sides of the street (originally and chiefly U.S.): to ally oneself with both sides in a competition or conflict, to behave inconsistently and opportunistically. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > be inconstant [verb (intransitive)] > temporize or trim to serve the time (also times)?1544 temporize1555 to turn the cat in the pan1622 trim1687 to sail with every (shift of) wind1710 to play (also work) both sides of the street1909 1909 Nevada State Jrnl. 17 Aug. 4/2 Trades and frame-ups that give all the spoils to the schemers who work both sides of the street, with a sort of alternating loyalty. 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 1/2 Our friends of the New Deal have the devil's own nerve when it comes to working both sides of the street. 1951 E. Kefauver Crime in Amer. xvii. 202 He played both sides of the street and made contributions to candidates of both major parties. 1969 Listener 13 Feb. 196/3 Amnesty International has to play both sides of the political street in seeking to obtain the release of political prisoners. 2001 N.Y. Times 1 July iv. 12/1 Smugglers and brokers..have thrived for years by working both sides of the street, doing deals not just with..warlords and criminal groups but with legitimate governments as well. on the street d. on the street. extracted from streetn.adj. (a) Originally U.S. slang. Outside prison, at liberty (cf. sense A. 3f). ΚΠ 1915 Boston Daily Globe 19 Dec. 37/1 If one gets in, his friends and his lawyer do what they can to ‘put him on the street’—to testify or exonerate him. 1928 S. Weyman Lively Peggy (1931) vi. 53 Haven't you heard, miss? That his son's on the street again? 1935 N. Ersine Underworld & Prison Slang 73 Street, n., figuratively, freedom. ‘Another year will see him on the street.’ 1951 W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun iii. 251 They worked their fines out on the street. 1994 Time 7 Feb. 58/1 In many inner-city neighborhoods, young men regard prison time as more a rite of passage than a deterrent... Once back on the street, these youths enjoy an enhanced status. (b) slang. With reference to the sale or acquisition of drugs: by illegal trafficking, when offered or sold on the streets. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [adverb] > illicit trafficking on (also upon) the street(s)1979 1979 Guardian 30 Oct. 8/5 We have either an extremely successful therapeutic service, or people are obtaining the drugs which they want ‘on the street’. 2005 Guardian 15 Nov. i. 3/1 Police chiefs and the government have commissioned separate studies into methamphetamine, or crystal meth, known on the street as ‘ice’, ‘meth’ ‘Tina’ and ‘Nazi crank’. (c) colloquial. Out of work, unemployed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > not working or unemployed servicelessc1450 unlabouredc1450 masterless1471 unwrought1550 unplaced1558 labourless1576 flag-fallen1609 unlabouring1619 disemployed1651 hireless1651 unengaged1654 unemployed1667 unworking1696 untoiling1748 workless1758 occupationless1822 placeless1828 out of work1833 non-working1841 unhired1852 jobless1862 out of (or in) collar1862 non-employed1876 spare1919 on the beach1923 in dry dock1927 off-the-job1950 on (also upon) the street(s)1980 unwaged1981 1980 J. Wainwright Venus Fly-trap 12 It's my living, too... If I upset that crowd, I could be on the street. 1993 D. Coyle Hardball iv. iv. 178 There was an increasing possibility that the management would be ousted. ‘It's tough to tell what all that could mean’, Bill said. ‘But if they clean house, I could be on the street’. < as lemmas |
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