英语词汇“the run of one's knife”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Chiefly Australian. the run of one's (also the) knife (and fork): free board, typically in return for work done. Cf. the run of one's teeth at Phrases 5a. Now rare.

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1842 Sydney Morning Herald 31 Oct. There are at present stockholders in Port Phillip who..paid shepherds, bullock drivers, &c, at a rate of wages from £50..and the run of the knife, (that is, no stated ration, but as much as he could eat).

1852 W. H. Hall Pract. Exp. Diggings Victoria (ed. 2) 50 Ten shillings a day, with board and lodging, or, to make use of a colonial phrase, ‘the run of his knife’.

1890 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Cumberland xvi. 239 The wandering minstrel..paid for his ‘whittle gait’—the run of his knife, or, as we should now say, of his teeth.

1907 B. Baynton Human Toll vi. 133 Jim.., for the run of his knife and fork and tips from customers, was, he said, groom at the Court House Hotel.

1927 Daily Mirror 10 Dec. 9/1 Sir Granville Ryrie..began work as a cattle driver at £30 a year and the ‘run of his knife’, which means his food.

单词	the run of one's knife
释义	> as lemmas the run of one's (also the) knife (and fork) b. Chiefly Australian. the run of one's (also the) knife (and fork): free board, typically in return for work done. Cf. the run of one's teeth at Phrases 5a. Now rare. ΚΠ 1842 Sydney Morning Herald 31 Oct. There are at present stockholders in Port Phillip who..paid shepherds, bullock drivers, &c, at a rate of wages from £50..and the run of the knife, (that is, no stated ration, but as much as he could eat). 1852 W. H. Hall Pract. Exp. Diggings Victoria (ed. 2) 50 Ten shillings a day, with board and lodging, or, to make use of a colonial phrase, ‘the run of his knife’. 1890 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Cumberland xvi. 239 The wandering minstrel..paid for his ‘whittle gait’—the run of his knife, or, as we should now say, of his teeth. 1907 B. Baynton Human Toll vi. 133 Jim.., for the run of his knife and fork and tips from customers, was, he said, groom at the Court House Hotel. 1927 Daily Mirror 10 Dec. 9/1 Sir Granville Ryrie..began work as a cattle driver at £30 a year and the ‘run of his knife’, which means his food. extracted from runn.² < as lemmas
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