单词 | pencil fever |
释义 | > as lemmaspencil fever ΚΠ 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 250 Pencil-fever, a suppositious disease among racehorses..sets in when, despite the efforts of the ‘marketeers’, a horse can no longer be kept at a short price in the lists, through his actual condition being discovered, and when every layer of odds is anxious to write his name down. 1883 B'ham Weekly Post 18 Aug. 8/5 Among the latest victims of ‘pencil’ fever is Elzevir, who has been doing so badly of late that the horse-watchers advise their clients to have nothing to do with him. < as lemmas |
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