单词 | to go to market |
释义 | > as lemmasto go to market h. Australian and New Zealand. to go to market: (a) (of a horse) to buck; (b) (of a person) to behave angrily, become angry. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] fanda1225 procurea1325 assay1370 workc1384 to put oneself in pressc1390 purchasec1400 buskc1450 study1483 fend15.. try1534 enterprise1547 to make an attempt?c1550 to give the venture1589 prove1612 nixuriate1623 to lay out1659 essay1715 to bring (also carry, drive, etc.) one's pigs to market1771 to have (or take or give) a crack1836 to make an out1843 to go to market1870 to give it a burl1917 to have a bash (at)1950 1870 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 12 Nov. 13/4 He slackens the rein, and saying, ‘Go to market now old fellow’, sits the wild plunge of the colt like a Mexican vaquero. 1887 W. S. S. Tyrwhitt New Chum in Queensland Bush 127 ‘I say, are you going to ride Customer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘I expect he'll go to market, won't he?’ 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I. xi. 168 If you hadn't come forward..the first time he propped, he mightn't have gone to market at all. ?a1927 F. S. Anthony Follow Call (1936) 17 Peter came home drunk once every week, and made his poor wife milk the herd of twenty-four cows by herself; and then about 8 p.m. he'd arise from the sofa and go to market because the poor woman hadn't cooked a hot tea for him. 1947 P. Newton Wayleggo 153 Go to market, a horse bucking. 1950 F. J. Hardy Power without Glory 35 I have me instructions, so it's no use going to market on me. 1992 R. Park Fence around Cuckoo 206 Did I go to market! A fur coat! Where did he think I was going to wear a fur coat. < as lemmas |
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