单词 | to come to the right shop |
释义 | > as lemmasto come (or go) to the right (or wrong) shop P2. to come (or go) to the right (or wrong) shop: to seek to obtain something from the right (or wrong) place or person. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > become bankrupt to play (the) bankrupt1548 bankrupt1552 to take Ludgate1585 break1600 to go down the weather1611 to break the bank1623 to go to the right shop1655 to swallow a spider1670 to march off1683 to go off1688 to break up shop1712 bust1834 burst1848 to go up King Street1864 to go bust1875 to go under1882 to belly up1886 the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > to, of, or upon someone > as the right or wrong person to go to the right shop1655 1655 F. Taylor Expos. 3 First Chapters Proverbs 143 Go to the right shop for heavenly knowledge. To Christs school. Search not on earth, for it is vain. ?1753 Devil Outdone 4 Men who..stole her to rob her of—Nothing at all; They sought not a Maiden-head, for if they had They went to the wrong Shop to find it, Egad. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iv. 26 They have come to the right shop for morals. 1890 R. Kipling Courting of Dinah Schadd & Other Stories 117 A Snider bullet ripped its way through the tent wall. The men swore. ‘It's that bloomin' deserter from the Aurangabadis,’ said Ortheris. ‘Git up, some one, an' tell 'im 'e's come to the wrong shop.’ 1923 J. B. Robinson tr. P. -J. Proudhon Gen. Idea Revol. in Nineteenth Cent. 298 They are revolutionaries in their hearts; only they go to the wrong shop for the Revolution. 1999 C. Harrod-Eagles Blood Sinister (2001) iv. 59 If she wanted contradiction, Swilley thought roughly, she'd come to the wrong shop. < as lemmas |
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