| 单词 | to cool or clear one's coppers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cool or clear one's coppers 8. Phrases. (colloquial or slang). †to catch copper: to suffer harm, ‘come to grief’. hot coppers: a mouth and throat parched through excessive drinking; hence, to cool or clear one's coppers. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief misfareOE miswendOE misferec1275 misspeeda1387 miscarryc1387 mischieve?a1400 to catch copper1530 to lose one's seatc1540 mischief1598 to bu(r)st one's boiler1824 to come to grief1850 to come (also go) a mucker1851 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 mucker1862 to go or be up the flume1865 to come undone1899 to play smash1903 to come to a sticky end1904 to come unstuck1911 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > clear throat with drink to whet one's whistle1674 to cool or clear one's coppers1831 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > dryness hot coppers1848 xerostomia1890 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 478/2 I catche copper, I catche [h]arme, Je me endommaige. And he be nat the wyser, he maye happe to catche copper by the meanes. 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 1st Pt. v. iv. sig. Fiijv Go to, Barber, no more, least Copper you catch. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. vii. 46 Bring some grog to clear our coppers. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son III. xiii. 87 Upon which he turned a glass down his coppers. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxii. 83 His smoking tea, which went..hissing over the ‘hot coppers’ of that respectable veteran. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 43 A fellow can't enjoy his breakfast after that without something to cool his coppers. 1890 W. Besant Demoniac i. 16 In the repentant morning..when hot coppers, fiery throats..parched tongues and fevered brows are served out among young sinners. < as lemmas |
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