英语词汇“to eat dinners”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to eat one's terms: a colloquial phrase for ‘to be studying for the Bar’; students being required to have dined in the Hall of an Inn of Court three or more times during each of twelve terms before they can be ‘called’. Also, to eat dinners.

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society > law > study of law > [verb (intransitive)] > study for the bar

to eat dinners1834

1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Misc. (1860) II. 312 He had already begun to eat his terms.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxx. 293 In term-time, Mr. Pen showed a most praiseworthy regularity in performing one part of the law-student's course of duty, and eating his dinners in Hall.

1856 H. Mayhew Great World London i. 72 Lawyerlings ‘qualify’ for the bar by eating so many dinners.

1861 C. J. Lever One of Them 159 He had eaten his terms in Gray's Inn.

1867 Cassell's Mag. 1 287/2 These dinners he must eat in hall in his own person.]

1879 Chambers's Jrnl. 23 Aug. 539/2 No student shall be called to the Bar until he has eaten a certain number of dinners at his Inn.

1929 A. Waugh Three Score & Ten 71 The eating of dinners in the Temple, and the attendance of lectures.

单词	to eat dinners
释义	> as lemmas to eat dinners a. to eat one's terms: a colloquial phrase for ‘to be studying for the Bar’; students being required to have dined in the Hall of an Inn of Court three or more times during each of twelve terms before they can be ‘called’. Also, to eat dinners. ΘΚΠ society > law > study of law > [verb (intransitive)] > study for the bar to eat dinners1834 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Misc. (1860) II. 312 He had already begun to eat his terms. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxx. 293 In term-time, Mr. Pen showed a most praiseworthy regularity in performing one part of the law-student's course of duty, and eating his dinners in Hall. 1856 H. Mayhew Great World London i. 72 Lawyerlings ‘qualify’ for the bar by eating so many dinners. 1861 C. J. Lever One of Them 159 He had eaten his terms in Gray's Inn. 1867 Cassell's Mag. 1 287/2 These dinners he must eat in hall in his own person.] 1879 Chambers's Jrnl. 23 Aug. 539/2 No student shall be called to the Bar until he has eaten a certain number of dinners at his Inn. 1929 A. Waugh Three Score & Ten 71 The eating of dinners in the Temple, and the attendance of lectures. extracted from eatv. < as lemmas
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