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单词 to go butcher's hook
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to go butcher's hook
Australian and New Zealand colloquial. [Rhyming slang.] to go butcher's hook: to become angry; to lose one's temper. Cf. to go butcher's at butcher's n. 2.Quot. 1914 shows earlier use of the (rare) form to go butcher hook.
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1914 Sport (Adelaide) 20 Nov. 5/6 Black Joe went ‘butcher hook’ when he saw his name in Sport. Never mind, Joe, it's a fact.]
1918 Kia Ora Coo-ee Aug. 5/1 A certain New Zealand Regiment, camped on the Jordan flats, recently came under the eagle eye of brother ‘Jacko’, who immediately went ‘butcher's hook’ or ‘ram's horn’ and launched forth much frightfulness.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 126 As soon as Sadie came in I went butcher's hook. ‘What's this bloody nonsense about a studio, Sadie?’ I said, going straight to the point.
1963 ‘R. Casey’ As Short Spring 275 The old man had come home full as a bull one night..all his money gone. The old woman had gone butcher's hook.
2015 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 25 May 13 Dad would go butcher's hook because I'd be trying to sell surfboards to people instead of serving petrol to people.
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