| 单词 | the devil rides on a fiddle-stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe devil rides on a fiddle-stick 1. The bow strung with horsehair with which the fiddle is played. the devil rides on a fiddle-stick: = here's a fine commotion. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > bow fiddlestick14.. archon1480 stick?1570 bow1580 archet1640 arco1740 fiddle-bow1827 violin-bow1858 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > in a state of commotion or disorder [phrase] on steerc1480 the devil to paya1500 in (an) uproar1548 the devil rides on a fiddle-stick1598 in motion1598 the devil (and all) to doa1681 (all) the fat is in the fire1797 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 693 Hic arculus, fydylstyk. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 493 The Deuil rides vpon a fiddle sticke . View more context for this quotation 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 106 I lent you indeed my Fiddle, but not my Fiddlestick . View more context for this quotation 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1773 I. 400 Johnson: Give him a fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing. 1842 E. S. Abdy tr. R. von Falkenstein Water Cure (1843) 210 I might as well inquire whether the fiddle or the fiddle-stick makes the tune. < as lemmas |
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