单词 | to give roast meat and beat with the spit |
释义 | > as lemmasto give (a person) roast meat and beat (him, her, etc.) with the spit ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. b iv v Tauernes where all that eate roste meate are beaten with the spitte. 1615 J. Swetnam Araignm. Lewde, Idle, Froward, & Vnconstant Women ii. 16 For a moneths pleasure shee may hap to make thee goe stark naked, she will giue thee rostmeat, but she will beat thee with the spitte. 1674 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 296 He gave me roast meat and beat me with the spit. 1687 W. Penn Good Advice to Church of Eng. 44 Certainly she..shows her self an ill Courtier..first to give him Roast-Meat, then to beat him with the Spit. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew To give one Rost-meat, and Beat him with the Spit, to do one a Curtesy, and Twit or Upbraid him with it. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 22 You give a Man Roast-meat and beat him with the Spit. < as lemmas |
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