| 单词 | to chalk it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto chalk it b. spec. To write up in chalk (a record, esp. of credits given); to score. Hence to chalk it: to run up a score, take ‘tick’. Now esp. common in to chalk it up (to), to charge it (to) (a person, an account, experience, etc.). Also, to write down; to set down as a sum or estimate. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] keep1552 chalk1597 society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)] > in chalk chalk1597 wall1848 society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > take credit creancec1386 to run into scores or in score1568 to run or go on or upon (the) score1568 score1594 to build a sconce1630 tick1648 to chalk ita1704 1597 1st Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. i. 451 All my debts stande chaukt upon the poste for liquor. a1704 T. Brown Wks. (1760) I. 182 A country parliament man that chalk'd it plentifully last winter session. 1826 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 11 She chalks up ‘scores’ at a' the shops. 1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow II. viii. 78 He chalked me down like a fool, me and Tom Staples; being old friends, or sort of. 1845 E. Robinson Whitehall II. xxii. 244 May I never chalk another pint! 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. iii. 167 Every man I chalked up was of the same opinion as the landlord of the Cat and Fiddle. 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 618 The farmers on that committee were outwitted, for while they chalked from $25,000 to $30,000, others chalked from $150,000 to $200,000, a sum which nobody expected could be raised. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 53/1 Chalk, to mark on a board with chalk the number of pints of beer a person is in debt to a publican. ‘Benny Mason's been to th' Gouden Cup an' had two quarts o' ale chalk'd down to you.’ 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Publicans are accustomed to keep the score by chalk marks behind the door, hence to be (chau·kd aup) is to be entered as a debtor. 1895 in Notes & Queries (1941) CLXXXI. 117/1 We want a drink... So, Miss, do chalk it up. 1939 N. Monsarrat This is Schoolroom ii. vii. 176 One of those superb nights when everything is so perfectly in tune..that one unconsciously chalks it up, to have something to aim at in the future. 1953 W. P. McGivern Big Heat vi. 82 Well, we can chalk it up to experience. < as lemmas |
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