单词 | to go back to the mat |
释义 | > as lemmasto go back (also return, etc.) to the mat P3. New Zealand. to go back (also return, etc.) to the mat: to return to the traditional Maori customs and way of life. Also (occasionally) to wear the mat. ΚΠ 1933 N. Scanlan Tides of Youth 109 Some of the Maoris, educated in youth and brought up in British ways, returned in later life ‘to the mat’. 1938 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Promenade 117 One day I think all Maoris will wear the mat again. 1947 ‘A. P. Gaskell’ Big Game 92 She must have been somewhere to a Maori High School and then come back to the mat. 1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now iii. vi. 197 All a man can do is go back to the mat and cry, or laugh. 1994 J. Lasenby Dead Man's Head 15 Her mother had more than a touch of the tar brush, and the girl will end up going back to the mat. < as lemmas |
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