| 单词 | to have a monkey on one's back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a (also the) monkey on one's back Phrases P1. slang (originally U.S.). to make a monkey (out) of: to make a fool of (frequently reflexive); to deceive, dupe; to ridicule. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > make a fool of playc1410 fordote1563 assot1583 noddy1600 noddypoop1640 to make a monkey (out) of1767 to draw a person's leg1851 rib1912 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase] to put an ape in a person's hoodc1330 to glaze one's houvec1369 to cough (a person) a daw, fool, momea1529 to make a fool of1534 to give (any one) the bobc1540 to lead (a person) a dancea1545 to make (someone) an ass1548 to make (a person) an ox1566 to play bob-fool witha1592 to sell any one a bargain1598 to put the fool on1649 to make a monkey (out) of1767 to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.)1869 to string (someone) along1902 to swing it on or across1923 1767 A. Murphy School for Guardians ii. 28 Now you may go and bow, and kneel, and make a monkey of yourself before some other window. 1860 Harper's Mag. Dec. 92/2 Lottie is too old now to be made a monkey and a show of. 1900 F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley's Philos. 192 Willum Waldorf Asthor has busted th' laws iv hospitality, an' made a monkey iv a lile subjick iv th' queen. 1931 M. Allingham Police at Funeral viii. 101 I don't want to put up any idea that isn't useful, and if I'm making a monkey of myself you mention it. 1952 Economist 1 Mar. 508/2 Any businessman who goes to Moscow in the belief that he will be able to strike an effective blow for anything he believes in..is simply inviting the ‘Agitprop’ experts to make a monkey of him. 1991 ‘C. Fremlin’ Dangerous Thoughts xi. 83 He thinks he can make a monkey of me, but mark my words, he's got another think coming! P2. to suck (also sup) the monkey: to drink wine or spirits from a cask (esp. surreptitiously) through a straw or tube inserted in a small hole; to drink wine from the bottle; (also) to drink from a coconut shell. Hence: to tipple. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor to wet (one's) whistle, weasand, mouth, beak, beardc1386 bibc1400 to kiss the cupa1420 drawa1500 refresh1644 mug1653 bub1654 jug1681 whiffle1693 dram1740 wet1783 to suck (also sup) the monkey1785 stimulate1800 lush1811 taste1823 liquor1839 oil1841 paint1853 irrigate1856 nip1858 smile1858 peg1874 gargle1889 shicker1906 stop1924 bevvy1934 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] to drink deepa1300 bousec1300 bibc1400 to drink drunk1474 quaff1520 to set cock on the hoopa1535 boll1535 quass1549 tipple1560 swillc1563 carouse1567 guzzle1579 fuddle1588 overdrink1603 to drink the three outs1622 to bouse it1623 sota1639 drifflec1645 to drink like a fisha1653 tope1668 soak1687 to play at swig1688 to soak one's clay (or face)1704 impote1721 rosin1730 dram1740 booze1768 to suck (also sup) the monkey1785 swattle1785 lush1811 to lift up the little finger1812 to lift one's (or the) elbow1823 to crook one's elbow or little finger1825 jollify1830 to bowse up the jib1836 swizzle1847 peg1874 to hit the booze, bottle, jug, pot1889 to tank up1902 sozzle1937 to belt the bottle1941 indulge1953 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue sig. Q2v To suck the monkey, to suck, or draw wine, or any other liquor privately out of a cask, by means of a straw. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl V. ii. 63 Thee hadst been sucking the monkey. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl V. iii. 92 A goodish wench in the main, if one keeps a sharp look out after her, else she will sup the monkey. 1821 W. Scott Pirate III. xii. 282 Why, he has sucked the monkey so long and so often..that the best of him is buff'd. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xi. 183 Do you know what ‘sucking the monkey’ means?.. It is a term used among seamen, for drinking rum out of cocoa-nuts, the milk having been poured out. 1842 R. H. Barham Black Mousquetaire in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 21 Besides, what the vulgar call ‘sucking the monkey’ Has much less effect on a man when he's funky. 1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. (1865) I. xiii. 357 Taking ‘a suck at the monkey’ (otherwise the whisky flask). 1868 Star 27 Mar. Three men..were charged with an offence called ‘sucking the monkey’, but in legal phraseology feloniously stealing, taking, and carrying away brandy from a cask in the London Dock. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 10 Dec. 5/3 ‘Sucking the Monkey’..was the cause of the death of a dock labourer... He had driven in the bung of a cask of brandy, and having had a good draught of the liquor, became unconscious. 1980 J. E. Valle Rocks & Shoals vii. 203 This practice of drawing hidden liquor out of a cask or other container by means of a straw was known among the sailors as ‘sucking the monkey’. 1992 V. Randolph & G. Legman Roll me in your Arms 427 When I asked what ‘sucking the monkey’ meant, he told me cheerfully it was ‘an old Army word’ for drinking whiskey straight, out of the bung-hole of a barrel. P3. Chiefly British. to have (also get) one's monkey up and variants: to be angry. So to put a person's monkey up. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] wrethec900 anbelgheOE wratha1225 wrakea1300 grievec1350 angera1400 sweata1400 smoke1548 to put or set up the back1728 to have (also get) one's monkey up1833 to get (also have) the pricker1871 to have, get a cob on1937 grrra1963 the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry wrethec900 wrothc975 abelghec1300 to move one's blood (also mood)c1330 to peck moodc1330 gremec1460 to take firea1513 fumec1522 sourdc1540 spitec1560 to set up the heckle1601 fire1604 exasperate1659 to fire up1779 to flash up1822 to get one's dander up1831 to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832 to have (also get) one's monkey up1833 to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837 rile1837 to go off the handle1839 to flare up1840 to set one's back up1845 to run hot1855 to wax up1859 to get one's rag out1862 blow1871 to get (also have) the pricker1871 to turn up rough1872 to get the needle1874 to blaze up1878 to get wet1898 spunk1898 to see red1901 to go crook1911 to get ignorant1913 to hit the ceiling1914 to hit the roof1921 to blow one's top1928 to lose one's rag1928 to lose one's haira1930 to go up in smoke1933 hackle1935 to have, get a cob on1937 to pop (also blow) one's cork1938 to go hostile1941 to go sparec1942 to do one's bun1944 to lose one's wool1944 to blow one's stack1947 to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950 rear1953 to get on ignorant1956 to go through the roof1958 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 to lose ita1969 to blow a gasket1975 to throw a wobbler1985 the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (transitive)] > make angry wrethec900 abelgheeOE abaeileOE teenOE i-wrathec1075 wratha1200 awratha1250 gramec1275 forthcalla1300 excitea1340 grieve1362 movea1382 achafea1400 craba1400 angerc1400 mada1425 provokec1425 forwrecchec1450 wrothc1450 arage1470 incensea1513 puff1526 angry1530 despite1530 exasperate1534 exasper1545 stunt1583 pepper1599 enfever1647 nanger1675 to put or set up the back1728 roil1742 outrage1818 to put a person's monkey up1833 to get one's back up1840 to bring one's nap up1843 rouse1843 to get a person's shirt out1844 heat1855 to steam up1860 to get one's rag out1862 steam1922 to burn up1923 to flip out1964 1833 B. Webster Golden Farmer ii. ii. 40 The Golden Farmer,..ven his monkey's up, vould go through me like a flash of lightning through a gooseberry bush. c1852 J. R. Planché Good Woman in Wood ii. ii. 27 I'm short in stature—that I don't deny, But put my monkey up, I'm six feet high! 1863 Tyneside Songs 25 For when maw mungky's up aw gan The yell hog or nyen. 1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. June 433/2 My ole massa's monkey up, and no mistake. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths II. 91 I'm glad that girl put my monkey up about the coals. 1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah ii. iv I always get my monkey up when I hear these swells laying down the law about indigo. 1960 G. W. Target Teachers 242 If that lady hadn't made Mr. Golding get his monkey up then he wouldn't have hit her anyway. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 23 Aug. 6 Naipaul, too, has his monkey up throughout—in his case, feels tetchy. P4. colloquial. a wagonload (also barrel, etc.) of monkeys: used as the type of something extremely clever, mischievous, disorderly, jolly, fun, etc.In barrel of monkeys, perhaps influenced by barrel of fun (laughs, etc.) at barrel n. Additions. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [noun] > state or character > that which characterizes a wagonload (also barrel, etc.) of monkeys1840 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > typical example of cunning thing or person a wagonload (also barrel, etc.) of monkeys1930 Maori dog1947 1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket v. viii. 129 De Traci chatters More than a cage of monkeys: we must wait. 1889 Harper's Bazar 21 Dec. 932/4 My brother..says the American girls are perfectly fascinating... He says they are more fun than a box of monkeys. 1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Dec. 115 Barrel of monkeys, or bushel of monkeys, to have more fun than, to have an exceedingly jolly time. 1908 W. G. Davenport Butte & Montana 28 This is just more fun than a bag of monkeys. 1930 G. Goodchild McLean Investigates xvi. 310 If once we lose touch with Feeny—good-bye to the Rajah's ruby. He is as clever as a cartload of monkeys. 1968 A. Powell Mil. Philosophers 155 They're as artful as a cartload of monkeys when it comes to breaking the rules. 1978 G. Vidal Kalki ii. 24 Christianity was never exactly a barrel of monkeys when it came to the here and now. 1986 Times 28 Apr. 31/6 Plot-wise, it is as mischievous as a wagon-load of monkeys. 1996 People (Electronic ed.) 2 June Knows loads about loads of sports. Clever as a barrowload of monkeys. P5. cold enough to freeze the balls (also tail, etc.) off a brass monkey: see brass n. Phrases 1. P6. to have a (also the) monkey on one's back. a. To be angry. Also to take the monkey off one's back.Quot. 1805 seems to refer to apish behaviour rather than anger. ΚΠ 1805 C. Wilmot Let. 24 Sept. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 194 Tho' the French manners are appropriate to themselves I can't endure the singerie of Bruin when he frolicks with the Monkey on his back.] 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) (at cited word) A man is said to have his monkey up, or the monkey on his back, when he is ‘riled’, or out of temper. 1886 H. Baumann Londinismen at Monkey Take the monkey off your back, beruhige dich, werde nur nicht so zornig! b. slang (originally U.S.). To be addicted to drugs, have a drug habit; (in quot. 1942) to suffer withdrawal symptoms. Hence to take the monkey off one's back: to give up drugs, overcome drug addiction; to calm down. ΚΠ 1938 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 29 272 Monkey: a habit, as in ‘I have a monkey on my back.’ Usually used when one is sick for lack of drugs. 1939 H. Heath et al. (title of record) You can't put that monkey on my back. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §509/28 Have a Chinaman or monkey on one's back, to manifest withdrawal distress. 1970 E. R. Johnson God Keepers (1971) vi. 68 Having a monkey on your back..always worked out logically to be the first purpose in a junkie's life. 1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) vi. 75 Young, middle-class white men returned to their homes and families with the heroin monkey on their backs. c. To suffer from burdensome worries, emotional pressure, etc. Also to be a monkey on a person's back and variants: to be a (continual) disadvantage, burden, or worry to a person. ΚΠ 1959 L. O'Connor They talked to Stranger v. 103 The average teenage gang member..knows that life will be more difficult from this point on; that he has a monkey on his back, one that he can't shake off. 1975 M. Ehrlich Reincarnation of Peter Proud xxiv. 219 Guilt is a monkey on your back. 1988 Computer Graphics World Feb. 73/1 You're an overworked video producer. The deadline monkey is always on your back. 1992 Tennis World (BNC) Apr. 12 The issue of her absence from Wimbledon last year remains the monkey on her back. 1992 J. Batten Class of '75 iv. 116 At last, the contract arrived, and Murphy, the monkey off his back, went to the managing partner..to hand in his resignation. P7. slang (chiefly British). to put it where the monkey puts the nuts: expressing contemptuous rejection. Also where the monkey puts the nuts and variants: in the anus. ΚΠ 1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 25 Put your gifts away, Where the monkey put the shells. 1906 C. J. C. Hyne Kate Meredith viii. 111 They can put their book debts where the monkey put the nuts. a1935 T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) ii. xiv. 139 ‘Put that where the monkey put the nuts,’ retorted Taffy. 1968 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself 43 The kind of proud and angry way in which one might say, ‘Put it where the monkey put the nuts!’ 1970 V. Canning Great Affair x. 168 He would get six inches of true British timber where the monkey kept his nuts. 1988 J. Neel Death's Bright Angel iii. 16 He added a scribbled note suggesting the supplier be told to put the writ where the monkey put the nuts. 2008 C. McCullough Independence Miss Mary Bennet (2009) 174 Do you know what you can do with your orders, Fitz? You can put them where the monkey puts his nuts! P8. colloquial. monkey see, monkey do: commenting (frequently contemptuously) on an instance of unthinking imitation, or of learning or performing by rote. ΚΠ 1895 Philadelphia Inquirer 24 Nov. 6/4 A case of monkey see—monkey do. 1920 Mansfield (Ohio) News 4 Jan. 4 a (caption) Monkey see monkey do. 1934 Z. N. Hurston Jonah's Gourd Vine i. 24 You jes started tuh talk dat foolishness since you been hangin' 'round ole Mimms. Monkey see, monkey do. 1967 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 6) Suppl. 1250/2 Monkey see, monkey do!, a Canadian (and U.S.) c[atch] p[hrase] ‘addressed to one who imitates the actions of another, or as a warning not to do such and such because someone (usually a child) might follow suit’. 1978 Maledicta 1977 1 273 Monkey see; monkey do. Elaborate precautions of Parisian couturiers could not curtail the spy. 1986 Video Today Apr. 57/1 Buttons only identified by symbols so read instructions carefully—a case of monkey see monkey do. 1995 Financial Post (Nexis) 22 June iii. 51 It's no secret the monkey-see-monkey-do NHL is hell-bent on transforming itself into the NBA. P9. colloquial. I'll be (also I am) a monkey's uncle: an expression of surprise; frequently used to intensify a previous statement. ΚΠ 1925 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 8 Feb. If that's a joke I'm a monkey's uncle. 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/2 Be a monkey's uncle, be surprised. 1934 J. Jevne & G. Purcell Joe Palooka (film script) in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 581/2 Well, I'm a monkey's uncle! 1949 A. Murphy Hell & Back x. 123 If it works..I'm a blue-tailed monkey's uncle. 1974 E. Thompson Tattoo 358 From Jack's point of view, if that milkmaid didn't have angry red bumps on her prat, he was a monkey's uncle. 1990 E. Van Lustbader White Ninja iii. 435 If this doesn't turn out to be a suicide, I'm a monkey's uncle. P10. coarse slang. not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck), etc.: not to care at all; to be completely indifferent or unconcerned. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)] to put in no chaloir1477 not to care1490 to let the world wag (as it will)c1525 not to care a chip1556 to hang loose (to)1591 (to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632 not to careor matter a farthing1647 not to care a doit1660 (not) to care twopencea1744 not to give a curse (also damn)1763 not to care a dump1821 not to care beans1833 not to care a darn1840 not to give a darn1840 not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861 not to care (also give) a whoop1867 (to care) not a fouter1871 not to care (or give) a toss1876 not to give (also care) a fuck1879 je m'en fiche1889 not to care a dit(e)1907 je m'en fous1918 not to give a shit1918 to pay no nevermind1946 not to give a sod1949 not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960 not to give a stuff1974 1893 R. G. Hampton Major in Washington 97 A poker I.O.U. that wasn't worth a monkey's snicker. 1942 P. Larkin Let. 20 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 32 I rather liked the way the words ‘monkey's fuck’ and ‘bugger’ shone like sign posts in the strange country of this drunken Scotch.] 1960 G. W. Target Teachers 100 The Old Man's door opened and the pair of them came out, Stillwell not seeming to give a monkey's, but too casual, and poor Jimmy Taylor with his hands clenched before him. 1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1188/1 Monkey's f*ck, not to care a, not to care a rap; low (esp. Naval). 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xii. 116 I don't give a monkey's knee if he was with the Resistance or the Mafia. 1970 Observer 10 May 33/5 Tony Martin has booked himself a vasectomy... ‘I was brought up a Catholic,’ he said, ‘but I don't give a monkey's; you've got to be practical.’ 1975 J. Wainwright Square Dance 26 ‘Not’, snarled Sugden, ‘that I give a solitary monkey's toss what you wear.’ 1990 Lancet 2 June 1313/2 In the words of one member of the underclass, [the government] ‘doesn't give a monkey's’. < as lemmas |
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