单词 | the lane |
释义 | > as lemmasthe lane a. slang. The throat; chiefly in the lane, the narrow, red lane, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [noun] rakeeOE cudeOE weasanda1000 chelc1000 throatOE garget13.. gorgec1390 oesophagusa1398 meria1400 oesophagea1400 swallowa1400 cannelc1400 gull1412 channelc1425 halsec1440 gully1538 encla?1541 stomach?1541 lane1542 weasand-pipe1544 throttlea1547 meat-pipe1553 gargil1558 guttur1562 cropc1580 gurgulio1630 gule1659 gutter lane1684 red lane1701 swallow-pipe1786 neck1818 gullet-pipe1837 foodway1904 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 119 Whole mainour places..thei make no bones ne sticke not, quite and clene to swallowe down the narrowe lane, and the same to spue vp again. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iii. sig. B.ij Good ale for the nones. Tib Talk. Whiche will slide downe the lane without any bones. 1812 G. Colman Poet. Vagaries 70 O! butter'd egg!.. I bid your yelk glide down my throat's red lane. 1865 London Society Jan. 13 I eat the macaroon. You see it's all gone down Red Lion Lane. the lane b. the lane: short for various ‘lanes’ in the City or for buildings situated there, e.g.Chancery Lane, Drury Lane (Theatre), Mincing Lane, Petticoat Lane, etc.: see quots. ΚΠ 1831 P. Egan Show Folks 29 The swell performers..who proudly observe, ‘I am engaged at the Lane.’.. But the ‘Lane’, alluded to in this instance, is Horsemonger Lane; where a number of engagements are suffered to expire. 1856 H. Mayhew Great World London 82 (note) Horsemonger Lane Jail, The Lane. 1865 Chambers's Jrnl. 18 Feb. 106/1 The ‘Lane’ (as Chancery Lane is familiarly called). 1872 B. Jerrold London viii. 77 When on a certain Sunday we turned into Petticoat Lane, we had the key to the activity of the clothes market of Lazarus. The Lane clothes thousands at Epsom. 1879 ‘Autobiog. of a thief’ in Macmillan's Mag. XL. 500 We used to..sell it.. to a fence..down the Lane (Petticoat Lane). 1880 G. R. Sims Forgotten in Ballads of Babylon 9 Whenever the Lane tried Shakespeare, I was one of the leading men. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 24 Apr. 2/3 When people who know that district [Drury-lane] hear it said that there has been ‘another murder in the lane’, they have no need to ask what particular lane is referred to. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 6 Aug. 11/4 ‘The Lane’, as that of Mincing is fondly known among the wholesale grocery crowd. 1926 F. M. Ford Man could stand Up ii. iii. 138 He had lately promised [them] tickets for Drury Lane... The Lane was the locus classicus of the race. 1959 B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green i. 24 I also stand down the Lane [sc. Petticoat Lane] on Sundays now and again. I'm what you might call a purveyor of bad taste. 1974 M. Birmingham You can help Me i. 11 Wentworth Street, down which the stalls of Petticoat Lane market spill... We never say ‘Wentworth Street’; it's ‘The Lane’ to us. 1974 M. Birmingham You can help Me ii. 29 Friday is the day for buying flowers in the Lane. < as lemmas |
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