| 单词 | plate of meat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplate of meat b. [rhyming slang] plate of meat, (a) a street (obsolete); (b) in plural, feet (also elliptically, as plates). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] streetOE rewa1350 gate1488 gate-row1598 calle1611 drive1799 drag1851 drum1851 plate of meat1857 stem1914 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [noun] footOE heelOE toec1290 pettitoes1590 goers1612 hoofa1616 fetlock1645 stamper1652 fetterlock1674 pedestal1695 trotter1755 footsie1762 dew-beaters1811 pedal1838 mud-hook1850 tootsy1854 tootsicum1860 gun-boat1870 mundowie1880 plate of meat1887 trilby1895 dog1913 puppies1922 1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 15 Plate of meat, street. 1887 Referee 6 Nov. 7/3 As she walked along the street With her little ‘plates of meat’. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 425/2 Plate of meat, (Cant) in America does duty as the name, among thieves, for a street or highway. 1917 W. Muir Observ. Orderly xiv. 222 To get your ‘plates of meat’ frostbitten wasn't such a ‘cushy wound’ as it was cracked up to be. 1951 P. Branch Lion in Cellar ix. 105 He..took off his shoes. ‘Heaven!’ he sighed. ‘My plates have been quite, quite killing me.’ 1978 E. Chappell Rising Damp Compl. Scripts (2002) iv. iii. 470/2 I'd do anything to sink my plates into a soft, velvet pile. 1996 Q Jan. 167/3 The place is still full of suits. Q's plates of meat are in a right old two and eight. < as lemmas |
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