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单词 to be on the top ropes
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to be on the top ropes
P1. slang or colloquial. to sway (also swing) on all top ropes: to behave in a high-spirited or wildly exuberant manner; spec. to behave in a riotous or drunken way. Later also to be on the top ropes: to be in high spirits. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > riotous excitement > behave with riotous excitement [verb (intransitive)]
rehayte1526
tear1602
to play up1849
to whoop things up1873
to raise sand1892
to raise (also kick up, play, etc.) merry hell1931
to go ape1955
to go (also drive) bananas1957
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > act in thoroughgoing manner > go to great lengths
to go (all, etc.) lengths1698
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum (at cited word) To sway on all top ropes; to live riotously or extravagantly.
1833 Amer. Monthly Mag. Dec. 252 Away then for London they started and ‘swayed away upon all top-ropes’.
1868 W. Pengelly in H. Pengelly Mem. W. Pengelly (1897) xii. 188 The veteran..was on the top ropes about the meeting.
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