英语词汇“to leg it”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. transitive. to leg it.

(a) To travel or move by foot; to walk or (now esp.) run. Cf. leg n. 1b.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)]

to stir one's stumpsa1500

to leg it?1587

skelp1721

split1790

to show a leg1818

to go the pace1829

step1856

?1587 J. Deacon Treat. Nobody is my Name sig. A8^v Come, let vs legge it a little to ouer-take the man.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 3 Well then, let vs legge it a little.

1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. (ed. 2) xxiv He was a leggin it off hot foot.

1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. i. 4 We're goin' along the cliffs after butterflies..We're goin' to leg it, too. You'd better leave your book behind.

1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 202 I legged it to the stationery store.

2005 Bliss July 50/2 I legged it to the bathroom.

(b) spec. colloquial (originally and chiefly British). To flee, run away.

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1920 P. G. Wodehouse Little Warrior viii. 149 Jill Mariner had gone completely bust; Underhill had given her the miss-in-baulk; and the poor girl had legged it, no one knew where.

1921 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 3 July in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 23 Both men offered to sell me ‘other Wodehouse’ books, but I smiled gently and legged it.

1940 J. Strachey Let. in P. Meisel & W. Kendrick Bloomsbury/Freud 312 Things began to go off, so we turned round and legged it back to the house on the double.

1993 Options Aug. 44/3 To be honest, I didn't wait for Charlie, I just legged it.

2006 New Yorker 17 Apr. 70/3 If I leg it this minute, I'll have time to get down onto the road and into the van before the cops arrive.

单词	to leg it
释义	> as lemmas to leg it a. transitive. to leg it. (a) To travel or move by foot; to walk or (now esp.) run. Cf. leg n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] to stir one's stumpsa1500 to leg it?1587 skelp1721 split1790 to show a leg1818 to go the pace1829 step1856 ?1587 J. Deacon Treat. Nobody is my Name sig. A8^v Come, let vs legge it a little to ouer-take the man. 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 3 Well then, let vs legge it a little. 1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. (ed. 2) xxiv He was a leggin it off hot foot. 1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. i. 4 We're goin' along the cliffs after butterflies..We're goin' to leg it, too. You'd better leave your book behind. 1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 202 I legged it to the stationery store. 2005 Bliss July 50/2 I legged it to the bathroom. (b) spec. colloquial (originally and chiefly British). To flee, run away. ΚΠ 1920 P. G. Wodehouse Little Warrior viii. 149 Jill Mariner had gone completely bust; Underhill had given her the miss-in-baulk; and the poor girl had legged it, no one knew where. 1921 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 3 July in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 23 Both men offered to sell me ‘other Wodehouse’ books, but I smiled gently and legged it. 1940 J. Strachey Let. in P. Meisel & W. Kendrick Bloomsbury/Freud 312 Things began to go off, so we turned round and legged it back to the house on the double. 1993 Options Aug. 44/3 To be honest, I didn't wait for Charlie, I just legged it. 2006 New Yorker 17 Apr. 70/3 If I leg it this minute, I'll have time to get down onto the road and into the van before the cops arrive. extracted from legv. < as lemmas
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