| 单词 | the malt is above the meal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe malt is above the meal (†rarely wheat, bere, water) P1. Proverbial phrase. the malt is above the meal (†rarely wheat, bere, water): said of a person who is drunk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > drunk [phrase] the malt is above the meal (rarely wheat, bere, water)1546 one over the eight1925 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Dii Malt is aboue wheate with hym, market men saie. 1626 N. Breton Fantasticks sig. B 3 Haruest. Malt is now aboue wheat with a number of mad people. 1670 Sc. Prov. in J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 295 [Scottish Proverbs] The malt is above the beir. 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 87 Proverbiall Periphrases of one drunk... The malt is above the water. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 320 The Malt's above the Meal with you. That is, you are drunk. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 71 When the malt begins to get aboon the meal..they are like to quarrel. 1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 10 He was a sturdy stalwart chiel,..Fond o' his maut aboon his meal. 1891 A. Forbes Bar. Biv. & Bat. (1910) 62 As he marched home from the little public-house..with ‘the malt abuve the meal’, his effort to appear preternaturally sober was quite a spectacle. 1939 J. M. Caie 'Twixt Hills & Sea 44 Tam was a thochtie fou, For the maut was abeen the meal. < as lemmas |
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