| 单词 | skin-your-nose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskin-your-nose P6. In phrases used attributively, esp. skin-'em-alive, skin-your-nose. ΚΠ 1869 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 203 If you had passed a week at this skin-'em-alive place. 1891 C. MacEwen Three Women in Boat 87 A good old skin-your-nose encounter. 1952 Statesville (N. Carolina) Daily Record 9 Oct. 2/2 The president..doesn't usually give them [sc. the crowds] the fire-and-brimstone, skin-'em-alive oratory that Ike delivers from the rear platform. 1996 R. Hansen Atticus vi. 178 But as skin-your-nose low as I was, there were a hundred others just like me down there. 2002 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 9 June j4 Rush Limbaugh is a pussycat compared to some of the skin-'em-alive rhetoric directed toward a football player gone bad. < as lemmas |
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