| 单词 | to buck or fight the tiger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto buck or fight the tiger a. The game of faro. to buck or fight the tiger, at faro or roulette, to play against the bank; also, less strictly, to gamble, play cards. U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > faro Pharaoh1648 faro1717 tiger1851 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [verb (intransitive)] > play against bank punt1712 buck1849 to buck or fight the tiger1851 1851 Adv. Simon Suggs iv. (heading) Simon starts forth to fight the Tiger. 1852 Knickerb. Mag. XL. 317 Such is ‘the tiger’, as the faro-table is called at the Springs: why, I never could learn. 1863 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 29 Jan. Bucking the tiger, which we wouldn't advise any one to do. 1888 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 14 Feb. in J. S. Farmer Americanisms (1889) More than one unsuspecting wife will have her eyes opened to the fact that the wicked tiger, and not legitimate business has been detaining her husband out so late at night. 1904 E. Robins Magn. North ii. 124 You've got to a place where you can..go buckin' the tiger between whiles. 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 96 Chinaman and cowpuncher,..tourist and tailor, bucked the tiger side by side. 1912 C. E. Mulford & J. W. Clay Buck Peters, Ranchman xiii. 179 Where in thunder was he? Maybe bucking the tiger at Little Nell's. < as lemmas |
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