| 单词 | to have guts in one's brains |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have guts in one's brains c. transferred. The inside, internal fittings, contents of anything. Also figurative (slang or colloquial) substantial contents, ‘something in’ a thing; so †to have guts in one's brains. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > that which is within > contents liningc1430 recluse?1440 content1526 supellex1553 furniture1612 gut1663 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 246 Truly that is no Hard matter for a man to doe That has but any guts in 's brains. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. Prol. 53 One without Guts in his Brains, whose Cockloft is unfurnish'd. 1699 T. Brown Let. 6 July in Wks. (1707) I. iii. 86 His Brother Boars I presume will have more Guts in their Brains for the future, then to pick a Quarrel with such as preserve their Lives. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xii. 119 Well, thinks I, what if I have lost my Gourds, I have gained Experience; I will dry them next Time with the Guts in. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 130 The whole ‘guts’ of the ships had besides to be torn out for the passage of the shaft. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 276 I..can almost always get a happy day out of Marion Crawford—ce n'est pas toujours la guerre, but it's got life to it and guts, and it moves. 1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Guts..(Artists), ‘no guts in it’. The expression is pretty general, but it is more specially used by artists to announce their opinion that there is nothing in a picture. < as lemmas |
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