| 单词 | bits and bats | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasbits and bats (or bobs, pieces)  b.   by bits: a little at a time;  bit by bit: = by bits, gradually, piecemeal; also attrib. and quasi-n.;  †at bits and starts: irregularly, intermittingly (cf. by fits (and starts) at fit n.2 4c);  bits and bats (or bobs, pieces): fragments, oddments, odds and ends; small articles, personal belongings, bric-à-brac;  (all) to bits: (reduced) to the condition of fragments;  to go to bits: to go to pieces (see piece n. Phrases 2a). ΚΠ 1596    Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene  iv. ii. sig. B7v,  				Workes of heauenly wits Are quite deuourd, and brought to nought by little bits !       View more context for this quotation 1624    T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 176  				His grace is not consumed by bits. 1632    R. Sherwood Dict. in  R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues 		(new ed.)	  				By bitts, par morceaux. 1704    Swift Tale of Tub x. 185  				He writ it in a Week at Bits and Starts. 1728    C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband  iii. i. 41  				The Glasses [of the coach] are all to bits. 1849    J. C. Hare Par. Serm.  ii. 189  				To pick it up in this way bit by bit. 1859    E. FitzGerald tr.  Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám lxxiii. 16  				This sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits. 1871    E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. 1st Ser. ii. 45  				This sort of bit-by-bit reform, going on for six hundred years. 1896    Yorks. Weekly Post 7 June  				Ah've sammed up a toathry oddments—bits an' bats mi mother ud call em. 1896    G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 29  				Gather up your bits-and-bobs, and let me lay the tea. 1905    G. B. Shaw Let. 31 July 		(1946)	 21  				We have withdrawn the play there because it went to bits. 1931    S. Jameson Richer Dust xv. 427  				His right leg and his stomach had been full of what he called bits and pieces. 1933    W. S. Maugham Sheppey  iii. p. 91  				I'm not going to stand by and see you sneak his bits and pieces. 1936    G. Pollett Song for Sixpence  iii. iv. 239  				A shop of artistic ‘bits and pieces’ standing alongside the close. 1940    New Statesman 9 Nov. 466/1  				There was still only the rubble, the bits and bats of broken furniture. 1955    ‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Ask Policeman ii. 25  				She'd taken all her bits and pieces to uncle long ago. 1958    M. Allingham Hide my Eyes xv. 151  				Give those chaps half an hour in here with their bits and bobs and there's no telling what they might be able to find. 1959    Listener 16 July 107/1  				Is it all bits and pieces, a mosaic of images? < as lemmas | 
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