| 单词 | red around the gills |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred around the gills a. red around the gills and variants: flushed due to drunkenness, anger, embarrassment, etc. ΚΠ 1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes iv. iv, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 46 I thinke he be drunken... Sure he seemes so: see you not how redde he is about the gilles? 1673 M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 10 On either side, each Brimmer fills, Till they grew red about the Gills. 1843 Brother Jonathan 17 July 199/1 ‘Folks don't du me justice,’ sez he, a turning red in the gills, ‘No man ever had better or more devoted friends on arth.’ 1902 Illustr. London News 24 Nov. 34/1 The crowd grinned to see John à Hall turning red in the gills. 2009 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 17 Apr. 33 Enough bad language to make even Love Actually's Richard Curtis go red around the gills. < as lemmas |
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