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单词 to be away for slates
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to be away for slates
P6. colloquial. to be away for slates: (a) (Irish English) to have started and be making good progress; to succeed; (b) (Liverpool) to depart hastily, to be in a hurry (rare).
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1930 Meath Chron. 2 Aug. 9/3 Meath were ‘away for slates’ as the saying goes, and there was no stopping them.
1958 Listener 6 Feb. 232/2 Me laddo gives me the griffin and I'm away for slates into the cokes.
1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 985/2 Away for slates,..departing hastily: Liverpool.
1989 Times (Nexis) 4 Feb. We thought we were away for slates.
2016 @JMaguireCritic 27 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) The Young Offenders [film] is away for slates... (Insert other Corkonian expressions of success and good fortune here).
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