| 单词 | to be on one's promotion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be on one's promotion P1. to be on one's promotion: to conduct oneself with a view to promotion. Also colloquial: to conduct oneself with a view to marriage. Now rare. ΚΠ 1833 F. Biddulph Let. 21 Oct. in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) I. 341 Emma is now a young Lady on her promotion, Matty Cotton is also turn'd loose a blazing meteor. 1836 Lett. from Madras (1843) i. 4 Several Irish girls apparently on their promotion. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 399 ‘I remember when you liked 'em though,’..‘That was when I was on my promotion, Goosey,’ she said. 1871 R. H. Horne in Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 473 At his house were met artists and artistes of various kinds, all ‘on their promotion’ and students in literature, poetry, and science. 1902 E. P. Thompson in Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 583 When the canonised saints have been worked out, he has recourse to those, as it were, ‘on their promotion’. 1929 Times 20 June 8/5 Hacks not exceeding 15 hands 2 in. make a good class. Mrs. Evelyn Rich's Black Mount, who was third at Bungay, is on her promotion. < as lemmas |
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