| 单词 | time and time about |
| 释义 | > as lemmastime and time about (a) Alternately; by turns. Later (now more usually) in the fuller form time and time about (cf. turn and turn about at turn n. Phrases 1a(e)(ii)). Chiefly regional in later use.The shorter form of the phrase was and remains chiefly Scottish (earliest with preceding possessive adjective; formerly also †times about). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > [adverb] changeablyc1384 alternately1432 interchangeably1483 handy-dandya1529 time about1537 by course1548 at (by) intervals1588 alternatively1591 reciprocally1603 by reprises1607 alternally1627 alterably1635 altern1667 alternate1715 by vicissitudes1749 alternatingly1845 1537 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 413 Sex of þe foirsaid viccaris þair tyme about ilk Satirdaye..sall syng þe foirsaid anteme. ?1590–1 J. Burel tr. Pamphilus in Poems sig. C3v To gang and cum, and towartis you resort, Our time about, for to confer anone. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 131 Becaus..diuerss of his freindis sould cum..thair tyme about, and attend his lordschipis seruice. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) xiii. 343 That a protestant emperor should be chosen time about with a popish. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. x. 256 Time about's fair play. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 664/1 Suppose now, I should give you the two stiles time and time about, like riggs of rundale on the hip of Tinwald hill. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) Times about, in turns, in rotation. 1849 Star & Banner (Gettysburg, Pa.) 28 Sept. He and his brother Louis..had..only one coat between them, so the brothers could only go out alternately, time and time about. 1868 R. L. Stevenson Let. July in Scribner's Mag. (1899) 25 31/1 You observe that I spell Philistine time about with one and two l's. 1907 W. G. Maxwell In Malay Forests 252 The two sang against one another, time and time about. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song 23 The ministers from Drumlithie and Arbuthnott and Laurencekirk they came time about in the Sunday forenoons and took the service there. 1963 J. Faulkner My Brother Bill 273 In Pylon..he wrote about two men sharing, time and time about, the same woman. 1974 P. M. Fink Bits of Mountain Speech 27 They go to her church and his'n, time about. 1988 J. J. Graham & J. Tait Shetland Folk Bk. VIII. 19 Du hang dem ower da bar ida roof abün a guid fire, hint an fore time aboot ta tak up less room. < as lemmas |
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