单词 | rub and go |
释义 | rub and gon. Now rare. = touch and go n. 1b. Frequently to be rub and go. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > narrow rub and go1790 touch and go1816 squeak1822 near go1826 close shave1834 a near (also close) toucher1844 squeeze1848 near-run thing1860 close call1881 1790 Connecticut Gaz. 4 June 3/3 Arrived at New-York, the State of Rhode-Island, and there safe moored in the Union, two fathom only!—A Narrow By, Faith, Jack!—(English language, just rub and go.). 1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Nov. 467 With present prices..it is rub-and-go with nineteen twentieths of the farmers. 1848 J. F. Cooper Jack Tier II. viii. 200 It has been rub and go with me ever since; and I have had as much as I could do to keep the brig in motion. 1905 Rep. Royal Comm. Supply of Food & Raw Material I, in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2643) XXXI. 349/1 Below them there would be men in this trade for whom it would be ‘rub and go’ every week?—Yes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1790 |
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