| 单词 | play away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play away to play away 1. transitive. To lose in gambling. Also, more generally: to waste, squander, throw away recklessly. Cf. sense 16. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)] forspendc893 scatter1154 dispend1303 waste1340 misspendc1390 miswastec1400 consumec1425 waste1474 profund1527 lasha1535 prodige1538 lavish1542 to play away1562 riot1566 embezzle1578 dilapidate1590 squander1593 confound1598 to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600 prodigalize1611 profuse1611 squander1611 paddle1616 bezzle1617 to run out of ——1622 to piss away1628 prodigal1628 decoct1629 to bangle (away)1632 debauch1632 deboise1632 to fribble away1633 to fool out1635 to run outa1640 to fiddle away1667 slattera1681 dissipate1682 to play off1693 duck-and-drake1700 liquidate1702 sparkle away1703 waster1821 befool1861 to frivol away1866 to play (at) duck and drake with1872 to fling away1873 mislive1887 slather1904 mucker1928 profligate1938 peter1956 spaff2002 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > lose money [verb (transitive)] > in gambling to play away1562 to play off1693 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > lose to play away1562 to play off1693 to race away1741 gamble1764 1562 Jack Juggler in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) II. 115 He hath no money but what he doth steal, And that he doth play away every deal. 1612 W. Strachey Lawes in P. Force Tracts (1844) III. 25 No man shall sell, giue, imbezell, or play away his Armes, or any part thereof, vpon paine of death. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 63 They will play away..Knights, Rooks,..and all. 1717 R. L'Estrange & J. Ozell tr. A. de Castillo Solorzano Spanish Pole-cat 10 He played away every thing he could lay Hands on. 1758 D. Garrick Gamesters iii. 41 More money..two hundred pieces more will serve my turn: in the mean time, I will play away my coat, and some superfluous things about me. 1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. June 560/1 With the last deal all was at an end; he had again played away all the gold he had brought to the spot. 1879 E. Dowden Southey iv. 112 Southey could not afford to play away his health at hazard. 1895 New Eng. Mag. Oct. 216/1 I can't go home to my wife and tell her I've played away her board and clothes in this cursed hole of a place. 1975 P. C. Harrison Death of Boogie Woogie in Callaloo (1985) No. 24. 385 You hung out all night and played away your pay. 2. intransitive. See sense 14g. to play away (from home) g. intransitive. colloquial (British and Australian). to play away (from home): to be unfaithful to one's partner; to commit adultery. Cf. away adv. 9a(a). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest [verb (intransitive)] > commit adultery to break (one's) wedlocka1100 to break spousehoodc1175 to break (also spill) (one's) spousal1340 adultera1382 to overgo one's beda1382 vowtrec1475 to break matrimony1530 to break wedlock1530 adulterize1611 adulterate1613 to commit the seventh1874 to play away1987 1987 Daily Mirror 28 Jan. 9/4 In parts of London they [sc. British Telecom] are launching a new system of detailed telephone bill... A nightmare for those playing away from home. 1988 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 4 Sept. Middle-aged men who keep a mistress are playing a deadly game... Heart specialists have found that 8 percent of deaths during sex happen to men ‘playing away from home’. 1989 in R. Graef Talking Blues xiii. 380 That is a major reason for playing away. I could say to the wife, ‘I've got to work tomorrow,’ and it can't be questioned. 1997 J. Owen Camden Girls 66 This isn't the first time he's played away from home then? 2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xxv. 287 Shirl knows I wasn't playing away—she's just making her point. < as lemmas |
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