英语词汇“pull devil, pull baker”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. pull devil, pull baker (also †parson, tailor, etc.) and variants: formerly used to incite two persons or parties to greater efforts in a contest for the possession of something; later in allusive use to suggest the vigorous contesting of something by two parties (sometimes attributive, or as adv.). Also as n.: a vigorous struggle or contest. Similarly (occasionally) pull dog, pull cat. [A comic tug of war between the Devil and a baker appears to have been a popular subject of English puppet shows and magic lantern shows in the 18th and early 19th centuries (see further G. Speaight in Notes & Queries 198 (1953) 286–8); compare:

1764 Beauties All Mag. Sel. III. 90/2 He dances punch inimitably..to the great diversion of all present; or opens his magic lanthorn and gives you pull baker, pull devil, in their gaudiest colours.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 182 Then my mother and her quarrelled, and pu'ed me twa ways at ance,..like Punch and the Deevil rugging about the Baker at the fair.

1823 W. Hone Anc. Myst. Described viii. 231 In 1818, a man..‘compassed a motion of the Prodigal Son’ by dancing his transparencies between the magnifying glass and candle of a magic lanthorn... There was also Noah's Ark, with Pull Devil, Pull Baker, or the just judgment upon a baker who sold bread short of weight, and was carried to hell in his own basket.

1850 H. Mayhew in Morning Chron. 28 Feb. 5/4 A very ingenious and intelligent man to whom I was referred, as the best in his trade, gave me the following account of magic lanterns... ‘I have known the business of magic lantern making thirty-five years. It was then no better than the common galantee shows in the streets, Punch and Judy, or any peepshow or common thing. There was no science and no art about it. It went on so for some time—just grotesque things for children, as Pull devil and pull baker.’

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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > incitement to effort [interjection]

pull devil, pull baker (also parson, tailor, etc.)1778

pull dog, pull cat1778

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [adjective] > that is the subject of contention > strongly contested

stiffc1250

hard-fought1633

well-disputed1654

pull devil, pull baker (also parson, tailor, etc.)1778

ding-dong1795

1778 G. Huddesford Warley I. 23 See the Devil intercepting, Tries to knock him off his Steed; Honest Paul in time has stepp'd in,..Two to One is Odds at Foot-Ball. The foul Fiend is pressed sore... Now pull Devil, Paul, and Baker, Devil to the Spittle goes.

1787 G. Colman Rolliad ii, in Prose Several Occasions II. 297 I have seen in Jack o'Lanthorn quick, Fierce Battle 'twixt a Baker and Old Nick;..Now here, now there, in contest most uncivil. Pull Tom, pull Nick, pull Baker, and pull Devil.

1789 J. Byng Diary 1 June in Torrington Diaries (1938) IV. 107 In London She is lost in the confusion of Dresses and Perfume; Countess, or Courtezan, all alike; Dress or deed; ‘Pull Devil, Pull Baker’.

1792 J. Wolcot Odes to Kien Long ii. 128 That most important contest then is o'er; Pull Dev'l, pull Parson, will be seen no more.

1828 J. Abernethy Lect. Anat. 276 It is such a regular pull-baker pull-devil concern, it is quite shocking.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. x. 129 ‘Pull devil; pull baker!’ cried the women.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 2/1 In practice tariffs are determined by the pull-devil-pull-baker principle.

1907 Daily Chron. 22 Mar. 3/4 It's pull dog, pull cat wi' man and woman, ever since the days of the apple.

1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Feb. 101/4 This game of nationalist pull-devil pull-baker will not be played out to its finish on an empty field.

1948 E. Forbes Running of Tide x. 446 He had her by the right arm, but Lover Birch leaned down and took her left. Pull devil, pull tailor, flashed through Peter's head.

1966 Listener 15 Sept. 371/2 In education as in other fields it is a question of pull devil pull baker.

1994 Times (Nexis) 20 May Pull devil, pull baker. The clue to this never-ending ride on the seesaw is simply that God is not mocked. Let us stop thinking in terms of rats, and broaden the problem.

单词	pull devil, pull baker
释义	> as lemmas pull devil, pull baker (also †parson, tailor, etc.) P3. pull devil, pull baker (also †parson, tailor, etc.) and variants: formerly used to incite two persons or parties to greater efforts in a contest for the possession of something; later in allusive use to suggest the vigorous contesting of something by two parties (sometimes attributive, or as adv.). Also as n.: a vigorous struggle or contest. Similarly (occasionally) pull dog, pull cat. [A comic tug of war between the Devil and a baker appears to have been a popular subject of English puppet shows and magic lantern shows in the 18th and early 19th centuries (see further G. Speaight in Notes & Queries 198 (1953) 286–8); compare: 1764 Beauties All Mag. Sel. III. 90/2 He dances punch inimitably..to the great diversion of all present; or opens his magic lanthorn and gives you pull baker, pull devil, in their gaudiest colours. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 182 Then my mother and her quarrelled, and pu'ed me twa ways at ance,..like Punch and the Deevil rugging about the Baker at the fair. 1823 W. Hone Anc. Myst. Described viii. 231 In 1818, a man..‘compassed a motion of the Prodigal Son’ by dancing his transparencies between the magnifying glass and candle of a magic lanthorn... There was also Noah's Ark, with Pull Devil, Pull Baker, or the just judgment upon a baker who sold bread short of weight, and was carried to hell in his own basket. 1850 H. Mayhew in Morning Chron. 28 Feb. 5/4 A very ingenious and intelligent man to whom I was referred, as the best in his trade, gave me the following account of magic lanterns... ‘I have known the business of magic lantern making thirty-five years. It was then no better than the common galantee shows in the streets, Punch and Judy, or any peepshow or common thing. There was no science and no art about it. It went on so for some time—just grotesque things for children, as Pull devil and pull baker.’ ] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > incitement to effort [interjection] pull devil, pull baker (also parson, tailor, etc.)1778 pull dog, pull cat1778 society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [adjective] > that is the subject of contention > strongly contested stiffc1250 hard-fought1633 well-disputed1654 pull devil, pull baker (also parson, tailor, etc.)1778 ding-dong1795 1778 G. Huddesford Warley I. 23 See the Devil intercepting, Tries to knock him off his Steed; Honest Paul in time has stepp'd in,..Two to One is Odds at Foot-Ball. The foul Fiend is pressed sore... Now pull Devil, Paul, and Baker, Devil to the Spittle goes. 1787 G. Colman Rolliad ii, in Prose Several Occasions II. 297 I have seen in Jack o'Lanthorn quick, Fierce Battle 'twixt a Baker and Old Nick;..Now here, now there, in contest most uncivil. Pull Tom, pull Nick, pull Baker, and pull Devil. 1789 J. Byng Diary 1 June in Torrington Diaries (1938) IV. 107 In London She is lost in the confusion of Dresses and Perfume; Countess, or Courtezan, all alike; Dress or deed; ‘Pull Devil, Pull Baker’. 1792 J. Wolcot Odes to Kien Long ii. 128 That most important contest then is o'er; Pull Dev'l, pull Parson, will be seen no more. 1828 J. Abernethy Lect. Anat. 276 It is such a regular pull-baker pull-devil concern, it is quite shocking. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. x. 129 ‘Pull devil; pull baker!’ cried the women. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 2/1 In practice tariffs are determined by the pull-devil-pull-baker principle. 1907 Daily Chron. 22 Mar. 3/4 It's pull dog, pull cat wi' man and woman, ever since the days of the apple. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Feb. 101/4 This game of nationalist pull-devil pull-baker will not be played out to its finish on an empty field. 1948 E. Forbes Running of Tide x. 446 He had her by the right arm, but Lover Birch leaned down and took her left. Pull devil, pull tailor, flashed through Peter's head. 1966 Listener 15 Sept. 371/2 In education as in other fields it is a question of pull devil pull baker. 1994 Times (Nexis) 20 May Pull devil, pull baker. The clue to this never-ending ride on the seesaw is simply that God is not mocked. Let us stop thinking in terms of rats, and broaden the problem. extracted from pullv. < as lemmas
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