| 单词 | to make the priming to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make the priming to b. U.S. colloquial. not a priming to (also not of a priming to, no part of a priming to): no comparison with, not a patch on. Also to make the priming to: to begin to compare with. Now rare. ΚΠ 1828 Eastern Argus (Portland, Maine) 19 Dec. 1/3 He would admit that Napoleon was a great genius; but insisted that he was ‘not of a priming’ to Henry Clay. 1831 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 10 Dec. 2/4 He was a pretty hard colt, but no part of a priming to such a feller as me. 1839 D. P. Thompson Green Mountain Boys I. i. 19 Two Alexanders, with half a dozen Turks thrown in,..would be used up in making the priming to Ethan Allen! 1848 G. C. Furber Twelve Months Volunteer 55 It held about thirty hogsheads but it was not a ‘priming’, and several of the companies were obliged to..proceed on to town, in and about which..they found water. 1870 Harper's Mag. Nov. 952/2 Those fellows in St. Matthew's days were not a priming to us! 1904 C. E. Carr Illini viii. 48 He replied: ‘I ain't a primin' to a curis young feller who used to keep a grocery down whar I live. He kin make a cat laugh. I've seen the hull neighborhood turn out to hear him tell stories.’ < as lemmas |
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