| 单词 | to do brown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do brown a. to do brown: perhaps, ‘to do thoroughly’, suggested by roasting; to deceive, ‘take in’. slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > cheat, swindle [phrase] > get the better of to do brown?1548 to give one the (or a) slampant1577 to play the merchant with1593 to come (or put) Yorkshire on one1700 to steal a march1716 to come (also act, play, etc.) the old soldier (over a person)1810 ?1548 L. Shepherd John Bon 8 Ha browne done. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlii. 461 ‘He goes in rayther raw, Sammy,’ said Mr. Weller metaphorically, ‘and he'll come out done so ex-ceedin' brown, that his most formiliar friends won't know him’. 1840 R. H. Barham Execution in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 304 We are all of us done so uncommonly brown! < as lemmas |
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