| 单词 | to take a stave out of a person's cog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take a stave out of a person's cog P4. Scottish. to take a stave out of a person's cog and variants: to reduce or diminish the quantity of food, money, etc., available to a person; (more generally) to place a restriction or limit on a person in some way. Cf. cog n.5 1. Now rare. Π 1862 Inverness Courier 18 Dec. 6/1 The funds of the school are exhausted, the day scholars are on short allowance—have had a stave out o' their cog of porridge, as Dr Guthrie told the meeting yesterday—and the resident pupils are being fed on credit and faith combined. 1879 Belgravia Aug. 209 It was a proverb in Cantire, when one was angry with another, that he would ‘take a stave out of his coge for that,’ meaning thereby, that such a one would be lessened of his enjoyments. 1889 H. Johnston Chron. Glenbuckie xvi. 179 I must either get my income augmented or take a ‘stave out of my cog’, as the saying is. 1937 in Sc. National Dict. (Electronic text) at Cog n.1 [Banff] Boggie wiz aye an upsettin' mannie, bit yon loss'll gar 'im tak' a stave oot o's cogue. < as lemmas |
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