| 单词 | to hunt the same old coon | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hunt the same old coon  3.  Phrases (chiefly U.S. slang).  a coon's age: emphatic for ‘a long time’.  to hunt the same old coon: to keep doing the same thing.  to go the whole coon: ‘to go the whole hog’; to ‘go in for’ a thing thoroughly. ΚΠ 1844    W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship 		(ed. 2)	 xx. 145  				The way she's mad at cousin Pete won't wear off in a coon's age. 1845    J. J. Hooper Taking Census i. 155  				We had not seen the amount of cash mentioned as lost, in a ‘coon's age’. a1860    Southern Sketches   				This child haint had much money in a coon's age. 1879    J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. 		(1879)	 384  				Meanwhile I inly curse the bore Of hunting still the same old coon. < as lemmas | 
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