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单词 to fly a tile
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to fly a tile
c. slang. to fly the mags: see quots. to fly a tile, to knock off a man's hat.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > strike off with a blow > a person's hat
to fly a tile1819
slate1864
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > pitch and toss, etc. > play pitch and toss, etc. [verb (intransitive)]
chuck1733
to fly the mags1819
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 175 Fly the mags, to gamble, by tossing up halfpence.
1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy II. 158 Another point of amusement is flying a tile, or slating a man, as the phrases of the Stock Exchange describe it.
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood III. iii. xiii. 165Fly the mags,’..replied Rust; ‘if heads, we scrag him.’
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