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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