单词 | to have the wall |
释义 | > as lemmasto have the wall a. to give a person the wall: to allow a person the right or privilege of walking next the wall as the cleaner and safer side of a pavement, sidewalk, etc. Similarly, to have the wall, to take the wall (of a person), to have, take the inside position. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (transitive)] to go before ——OE overlightlOE preferc1395 precede1485 precess1529 to take the wall (of a person)?1562 outshine1605 to have the place1659 to take the road of1670 rank1841 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > traverse on foot [verb (transitive)] > allow right or privilege of walking next to wall to give a person the wall?1562 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > treat discourteously [verb (transitive)] > specifically by taking inside of pavement to take the wall (of a person)?1562 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > be allowed to walk next to wall to take the wall (of a person)?1562 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > allow (a person) to walk next to wall to give a person the wall?1562 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > allow (a person) to walk next to wall > walk nearer to wall than to have the wall?1562 ?1562 Thersytes sig. A.iv Yes yes god wote, they geve me the wall Or elles with my clubbe, I make them to fall. 1592 Arden of Feversham v. i I haue made some go vppon wodden legges for taking the wall on me. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 95 The Persians had a law enioyning all men..to giue him [an elder] the wall when they mett him in the streetes. 1671 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility iii. 17 To allow him the upper end of the Table or Chamber, and the Wall, as they walk in the Streets. 1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 20 Sept. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 281 [ Johnson] said, that in the last age, when his mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome... ‘Now,..it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taking the wall, another yields it, and it is never a dispute’. 1869 A. J. Munby Diary 24 Dec. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) vii. 278 ‘If a nigger didn't give me the wall, I'd knock him down as soon as look at him!’ Here we have the British Philistine. < as lemmas |
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