| 单词 | to come home with the milk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come (also go) home with the milk d. to come (also go) home with the milk: to arrive home early in the morning. ΚΠ c1850 Going home with Milk in Morning (ballad) Stop out on the spree, that's the motto for me And come in with the milk in the morning. 1885 Australasian Printers' Keepsake 142 As soon as ‘the cut’ was out we used to adjourn to Waldies..nobblerise for a bit, and then go home with the milk in the morning. 1917 P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 238 You talk of a man ‘going home with the milk’ when you mean that he sneaks in in the small hours of the morning. 1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. ii. 17 The family has nothing to do with the way the governess spends her evenings..except if she comes home with the milk after her evening out. 1947 W. S. Maugham Creatures of Circumstance 100 Every party's got to come to an end, and next day it doesn't matter much if you went home with the milk or if you left while the fun was in full swing. < as lemmas |
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