| 单词 | stick and stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(every) stick and stone (also stower, stock, etc.) b. (every) stick and stone (also stower, stock, etc.) and variants: all the parts or materials of a thing, esp. a building or other structure; the whole of a thing. Also used adverbially: totally, completely. Cf. stower n.1 1, stock and block at stock n.1 1e. ΚΠ ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7177 (MED) Þe place was brynt, styk and stoure, Abbay and house. ?1459 Will of John Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 90 That thanne the said John Paston shulde doo poule doun the said mansion and euery stone and stikke therof. a1500 (c1437) Brut (Lamb.) 583 Þe Calisers..bare lxiii clene away, Euery stikke & stone, & lafte not ther one log. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 232v [He] to declare hym selfe [free from the assumption of kingly power], was fain to pul down his hous sticke and stone euen to ye plain grounde. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ix. ix. 161 Godfrey meane-while to ruin sticke and stone Of this faire towne, with battrie sore, assaies. 1662 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 612 We putt it into the fyre, That it mey be brunt both stik and stowre. a1771 J. Gill Coll. Serm. & Tracts (1778) I. xxx. 501 Sin is like the spreading leprosy in the house, which could not be cleansed of it, without pulling down every stick and stone. 1786 R. Burns Poems 216 Folk thought them ruin'd stick-an-stowe. 1829 Melodist 4 375 Old streets now it hard to trace is..; Swallow-street, so long well known, sir, Is swallow'd up both stick and stone. 1880 S. Baring-Gould Mehalah I. xii. 240 Cousin Charles is not the man to see his relatives sold up stick and stock. 1914 D. H. Lawrence Let. 22 Aug. (2002) II. 209 Germany is a queer country... I alternate between hating it thoroughly, stick stock and stone, and yearning over it fit to break my heart. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 292/2 A went in an' it'd all went! Ivvry bloody stick an' stow on it! 2015 A. B. Harp Sooner Story 20/2 Every faculty member, every student, every custom, every stick and stone on the campus, was there because of him. < as lemmas |
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