| 单词 | to give a line on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give (someone) a line on e. to get a line on, to acquire information about (a thing), to come to know. So to give (someone) a line on. colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] seeOE fanda1000 finda1200 kenc1330 lenda1350 agropea1393 contrive1393 to find outc1405 outsearch?a1439 ripec1440 inventc1475 disclose?a1500 fish1531 agnize?1570 discover1585 to grope out1590 out-find1590 expiscate1598 vent1611 to learn out1629 to get to know1643 develop1653 ascertain1794 stag1796 root1866 to get a line on1903 establish1919 society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person) to teach a person a thingc888 meanOE wiseOE sayOE wittera1225 tellc1225 do to witc1275 let witc1275 let seec1330 inform1384 form1399 lerea1400 to wit (a person) to saya1400 learn1425 advertise1431 givec1449 insense?c1450 instruct1489 ascertain1490 let1490 alighta1500 advert1511 signify1523 reform1535 advise1562 partake1565 resolve1568 to do to ware1594 to let into one's knowledge1596 intellect1599 possess1600 acquainta1616 alighten1615 recommenda1616 intelligence1637 apprise1694 appraise1706 introduce1741 avail1785 prime1791 document1807 to put up1811 to put a person au fait of1828 post1847 to keep (someone) straight1862 monish1866 to put next to1896 to put (one) wise (to)1896 voice1898 in the picture1900 to give (someone) a line on1903 to wise up1905 drum1908 hip1932 to fill (someone) in on1945 clue1948 background1961 to mark a person's card1961 to loop in1994 1903 Sun (N.Y.) 18 Nov. 4 ‘These dressmakers’..cannot get a line on the styles except at the Horse Show. 1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. (advt.) p. ii Get the right ‘line’ on the clothes the best dressed men will wear this fall. 1920 B. Cronin Timber Wolves 138 It ain't over wise to give anyone a line on to what's doing. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean iii. 41 How about these other birds. Give me a line on them. 1927 H. V. Morton In Search of Eng. iii. § 6. 53 I don't know a darned thing about England yet,..but I'm getting a line on her, sure enough. 1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xiv. 165 I did tumble to it that you'd got a line on me when you sent me down with that detective fellow to Charing Cross. 1935 P. G. Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins v. 50 If you want to get a line on how she feels, she gave me a letter to give you... Here it is. 1942 Penguin New Writing 12 85 ‘They got a line on him,’ said the R.P. 1947 Chicago Tribune 22 July 1/5 If we can find any one who saw her at a dance after 10:30 p.m. we may be able to get a line on whom she was dancing with and whose company she was in when she left. < as lemmas |
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