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单词 to go round the traps
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to go round the traps
Australian and New Zealand colloquial. round (also around) the traps: in or to various places, esp. where people meet socially or gather for a particular activity or purpose. Often in to go round the traps. [With reference to the practice (in some rural areas) of routinely inspecting traps, especially rabbit traps, for prey.]
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1885 S. Austral. Reg. 11 May 5/8 When there's a moon I go round the traps again after sundown.]
1959 Western Herald (Bourke, New S. Wales) 11 Sept. Much of his B.A.T. [= Butler Air Transport] service was ‘around the traps’ in New South Wales and Queensland.
1965 J. Wynnum Jiggin' in Riggin' 124 So yesterday she made a trip around the traps, throwing out a few hints, is that it?
1991 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 23 Nov. Pat Sabine, who has been appointed as the state's first director of museum services, was in Hobart this week going round the traps.
2003 M. McKinnon N. Z. Treasury 1840–2000 iii. ix. 390 In 1991..the department formally adopted a Maori name. It had been known for many years ‘round the traps’ as ‘TeTari Putea’—the money department.
2015 Geelong Advertiser (Nexis) 13 May 51 I sort of get that from talking to people around the traps and in Geelong.
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