| 单词 | to have both one's meat and mense |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have both one's meat and mense b. to have both one's meat and mense and variants: to have the credit of being considered generous (in regard to food, etc.) without the expense (as by giving an invitation which is not accepted). Similarly to lose both one's meat and mense, etc. ΚΠ a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) 81 I have my meate and my mense baith. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 44 It was repute a good Defence, Yet they lost both their Meat and Mense. 1704 Atholl MSS in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. 235/1 If they send others and not me I hope your grace will not want me and I will hafe both my meat and mense. 1847 R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Grange xv. 295 Our appetite would immediately fail us, and his lordship would save both ‘his meat and his mense’, as they say in the country. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 68 [Citing Poor Rabbin's Ollminick.] Ye shud still ax a frien' t' take a bit o' whativver's goin', if he diz, why A wish him his health, an' much good may it do him; if not ye hae yer meat and mense both. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 221/1 Have your meat and your mense, have your mense and your meal. < as lemmas |
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