| 单词 | pick a hole or holes in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pick a hole or holes in 9. figurative. A flaw, fault, ground for blame. Usually in to pick a hole or holes in something; formerly also to find (pick, make) a hole in a person's coat. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > defect or fault or flaw faultc1320 breckc1369 villainyc1400 offencec1425 defectc1450 defection1526 vitiosity1538 faintness1543 gall1545 eelist1549 mar1551 hole1553 blemish1555 wart1603 flaw1604 mulct1632 wound1646 failurea1656 misfeature1818 bug1875 out1886 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 53 The lawyers lacke no cases..Is his Lease long..Then (qþ he) let me alone with it, I wil finde a hole in it. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vi. 85 If I finde a hole in his Coat, I will tell him my minde. View more context for this quotation 1648 M. Nedham Plea for King 21 Every ambitious popular person would be ready to pick holes in their Coates, to bring them into disfavour of the People. 1682 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 4 If they did not appeare, there might some hole be picked in their charter. 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 219 If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it. 1871 D. M. Mulock Fair France i. 4 We do not go to visit a neighbour, in order to pick holes in him and his establishment. 1894 A. D. Godley Aspects Mod. Oxf. 93 Any one can pick holes in the University system of teaching and examination. to pick a hole or holes in to be in the hole U.S.: to be in (usually financial) difficulties (cf. 3). a hole in the head, esp. in to need (something) like a hole in the head (cf. Yiddish ich darf es vi a loch in kop): applied to something not desired at all or something useless. to make a hole (in anything): to use up, or cause the loss of, a considerable amount of anything; to create a loss. to make a hole in the water: see water n. Phrases 3a(c). a round peg (or man) in a square hole (and vice versa): one whose situation does not fit his special aptitudes. to pick a hole or holes in: see sense 9. to put in the hole (slang): to swindle, defraud. to take (something) a hole lower: to take down, humiliate, humble; cf. buttonhole n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > make humble [verb (transitive)] edmodienc1175 lowc1175 meekc1175 lessa1382 abatec1390 abasea1393 belowc1400 meekenc1400 disadvance?c1425 simplec1450 lowlyc1485 humilea1492 chasten1526 to pare the nails ofa1549 lessen1579 vail1582 to take (something) a hole lower1591 destate1615 humblea1616 thorough-humblea1617 humiliate1656 level1712 unnichea1751 to level up, down1791 unpedestal1821 to take the starch out of1830 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] spend1297 usea1382 costa1400 consumea1527 to make a hole (in anything)1591 absorb1686 to use up1712 expend1745 to use off1812 to get through ——1833 to go through ——1949 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle defraud1362 deceivec1380 plucka1500 lurch1530 defeata1538 souse1545 lick1548 wipe1549 fraud1563 use1564 cozen1573 nick1576 verse1591 rooka1595 trim1600 skelder1602 firk1604 dry-shave1620 fiddle1630 nose1637 foista1640 doa1642 sharka1650 chouse1654 burn1655 bilk1672 under-enter1692 sharp1699 stick1699 finger1709 roguea1714 fling1749 swindle1773 jink1777 queer1778 to do over1781 jump1789 mace1790 chisel1808 slang1812 bucket1819 to clean out1819 give it1819 to put in the hole1819 ramp1819 sting1819 victimize1839 financier1840 gum1840 snakea1861 to take down1865 verneuk1871 bunco1875 rush1875 gyp1879 salt1882 daddle1883 work1884 to have (one) on toast1886 slip1890 to do (a person) in the eye1891 sugar1892 flay1893 to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895 con1896 pad1897 screw1900 short-change1903 to do in1906 window dress1913 ream1914 twist1914 clean1915 rim1918 tweedle1925 hype1926 clip1927 take1927 gazump1928 yentz1930 promote1931 to take (someone) to the cleaners1932 to carve up1933 chizz1948 stiff1950 scam1963 to rip off1969 to stitch up1970 skunk1971 to steal (someone) blind1974 diddle- the mind > possession > poverty > in impoverished state [phrase] > lacking money out of cash1593 out of stock1648 stump1828 nary red1849 to be in the hole1890 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [noun] > that which is useless > typically sick headache1915 a hole in the head1951 1591 J. Lyly Endimion iii. iii. sig. E3 Hee hath taken his thoughts a hole lower, and sayth..hee will vaile bonet to beautie. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Humilié, humbled..taken a hole lower. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 183 To lay five hundred of your best men on the earth, which losse will make a great hole in your Armie. 1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 75 It will make a greater hole in thy conscience, then it can in thine estate by parting with it. 1706 Mrs. Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 208 Mr. Ray did not leave £40 a year..out of which taxes, repairs, and quit-rent make a great hole. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Mem. (1964) 243 To put a person in the hole, to defraud him of his due share of the booty by embezzling a part of the property, or the money, it is fenced for; this phrase also applies generally to defrauding anyone with whom you are confidentially connected of what is justly his due. 1833 Session Papers 3 Jan. 115/1 Miller..said they had put him in the hole, and he..would say where they were; by putting him in the hole, I understand they did not take the property away as he expected. 1887 Spectator 26 Mar. 412/2 An average daily consumption of four glasses..makes a hole in the income of the working class. 1890 Centralia (Washington) Chron. 18 Sept. 3/2 His failure leaves a number of our local dealers in the hole for amounts ranging from £200 down. 1893 L. W. Moore His Own Story xxi. 293 What was said at that time about his being ‘put in the hole’, I cannot say; but I do know he held me blameless, for none of the funds, except my own share, was ever in my possession. a1895 Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiogr. (1896) iii. 72 The Admiralty would not rescind their orders, so we were a round man in a square hole, and vice versâ. 1897 Boston Jrnl. 12 Mar. 10/1 The sporting-man was $40 in the hole. 1916 Literary Digest 8 Jan. 87/1 The Wards were in the hole to the extent of close to $800,000. 1926 J. Black You can't Win ix. 104 I thought you put me in the hole for some coin, but I found out that the people lost just what you both said. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime iii. 45 How in the world did you manage to get in the hole for a sum like that? 1951 in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 29/2 A smart operator needs a dame like he needs a hole in the head. 1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xiv. 91 The Disciples..were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions i. iii. 101 I need this drink like I need a hole in the head. 1971 D. Creed Trial of Lobo Icheka xiii. 133 He needed Petersen about as much as he needed a hole in the head. < as lemmas |
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