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单词 to get a guernsey
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to get (or draw) a guernsey
a. A thick, knitted, closely-fitting vest or shirt, generally made of blue wool, worn by seamen. Also Australian, a coloured shirt worn by Australian Rules players; so to get (or draw) a guernsey, to be selected (for a team); transferred, to be invited, to succeed.
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1839 Bell's Life in London 16 June 3/5 The Etonian crew were dressed in white guernseys, with pale blue facings; rosette, sky blue.
1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 7 499 An amateur boatman..in a Fez cap, striped Guernsey.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 66/1 The sailors in their striped guernseys.
1861 G. M. Musgrave By-roads in Picardy 170 Villers Bretonneaux [was] celebrated, from an early period, for its manufacture of..socks, caps, waistcoats, and jackets or Guernseys.
1887 H. Caine Deemster I. ix. 193 There was Dan in his guernsey on the deck of his boat.
1963 Times 5 June 5/4 The flying gold guernsies of the Australians lit the gloomy arena with their explosive action.
1966 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) xix. 392 Get a guernsey (succeed or be selected, from football).
1966 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) xxi. 428 Success: get (or draw) a guernsey.
1969 Australian 24 May 17/3 Goold..wears either a hacking jacket or a football guernsey with easy grace.
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