| 单词 | sardines-in-the -box |
| 释义 | > as lemmassardines-in-the (also a)-box e. plural (construed as singular). A party game of hide-and-seek, in which each seeker joins the hider upon discovery until one seeker remains. Also sardines-in-the (also a)-box (U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > other party or parlour games drawing of glovesc1540 drawing gloves1599 substantives and adjectives1601 draw gloves1648 grinning-match1711 Move All1782 consequences1811 stagecoach1831 letters1845 Russian scandal1861 buzz1864 snap1865 slappy1868 apple-ducking1886 up Jenkins1889 piladex1895 telephone1910 hot potato1915 sardines1924 murder in the dark1930 pass the parcel1953 seven minutes in (also of) heaven1953 Chinese whispers1964 1924 in Mendel & Meynell Weekend Bk. 241 Sardines is gaudier still. Only one player hides, all the others seek; the first to find him hides with him, the next..squashes in alongside,..till everybody's hiding in the same spot but one Seeker. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby v. 82 ‘Hide-and-go-seek’ or ‘sardines-in-the-box’ with all the house thrown open to the game. 1935 N. Marsh Enter Murderer xx. 242 Give us all the light in the house. I refuse to play sardines with Mr. Hickson. 1959 ‘J. Byrom’ Take only as Directed xiii. 147 I remembered the big linen-chest... I had once hidden there playing Sardines. 1960 N. Hale New Eng. Girlhood 113 We used to play hide-and-go-seek, and a game called sardines-in-a-box. 1962 B. Cobb Murder: Men Only iv. 37 That game—‘Sardines,’ isn't it?—in which men hide with girls in cupboards. 1974 N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 116 Tomorrow is a holiday... So we weekend... And play sardines. 1980 G. M. Fraser Mr American xiii. 259 The festivities were strictly of the nursery variety..musical chairs, ‘sardines’, and hide-and-seek. < as lemmas |
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