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单词 to take a spring of one's own fiddle
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to take a spring of one's own fiddle
b. Scottish. figurative and in figurative contexts. Frequently in to take a spring of one's own fiddle and variants: to do things one's own way; to do what one pleases. Now archaic and rare.
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1568 H. Charteris in D. Lindsay Wks. Pref. sig. +iiv Sic ane spring he gaif yame in the play, playit besyde Edinburgh, in presence of the Quene Regent.
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxviii. 21 Bot now Prouest Marschell in playing this spring;..Beleuis thow this trumprie sall stablische thy style?
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 919 But since ye thinkt an easie thing To mount above the moone Of your owne fiddle take a spring And dance when yee have done.
1637 S. Rutherford Let. 16 June (1848) clxxxi. 349 Christ..will give you leave to sing as you please, but he will not dance to your daft spring.
1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. ii. 27 Experience will this unriddle; Sae take a Spring of thine awn Fiddle.
1786 R. Burns Poems 220 I've play'd mysel a bonie spring, An' danc'd my fill!
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 273 Ou, sir, if the gentleman likes he may play his ain spring first; it's a' ane to Dandie.
1933 Musical Q. 19 387 He's made his bed, let him lie on it. Let him take a spring of his own fiddle and dance to it when he has done.
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