| 单词 | to cut monkeyshines |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut (up) monkeyshines A trick, prank, antic; a ruse, wile. Chiefly in plural, esp. in to cut (up) monkeyshines. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > antic toy?1518 antics1570 murlimewes1583 monkey trick1653 dido1807 monkey work1830 monkeyshinec1832 monkey business1835 rannygazoo1896 c1832 T. D. Rice Jim Crow iii I cut so many munky shines, I dance de gallopade. 1847 ‘H. Franco’ Trippings Tom Pepper I. vi. 43 Let me catch him cutting up any monkey shines in this house, and I'll bea[n] him! 1894 F. R. Stockton Pomona's Trav. 76 Most of them played and cut up monkey-shines on the hay. 1905 E. Wood Back Home 148 Always up to some monkeyshine. 1932 R. Frost Let. 13 Dec. (1964) 231 In a way it was a monkey-shine and he needn't have minded poetry's having a little the best of it for once. 1973 ‘H. Howard’ Highway to Murder xi. 141 Why all the monkeyshines to get rid of Lucy? 1995 R. B. Wright Age of Longing ix. 111 Men gathered to recall games and monkeyshines played yesterday or long ago. < as lemmas |
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