单词 | to hook one's mutton |
释义 | > as lemmasto hook one's mutton a. to hook one's mutton: (a) to take one's partner in a dance (rare); (b) to depart, to clear out. ΚΠ 1929 ‘E. Milton’ Love & Chiffon 233 Look slippy, buddies. Hook your muttons for an extra. 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 53 To hook one's bait or mutton, to depart (a variant of the English sling one's hook). 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. 177 Some expressions that have been claimed for New Zealand are at the rate of knots ‘very fast’, hook your mutton ‘clear out’. 1988 D. McGill Dict. Kiwi Slang 57 Hook your mutton clear out, similar to ‘slinging your hook’; eg ‘Let's hook our mutton, there's no welcome here, fellas’. < as lemmas |
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