| 单词 | to knock the soul bolts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto knock (also shake, start, etc.) the soul bolts Usually in plural. Any of the notional bolts which fasten the soul in place. Chiefly in phrases expressive of violent shock or attack, as to knock (also shake, start, etc.) the soul bolts. Cf. soul case n.2 ΚΠ 1815 ‘T. Tarpaulin’ Paddy Hew 132 I've had so many outs and in I've soul-bolts lost and liver-pins. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket xci. 452 Start my soul-bolts, maties, if any more Blue Peters and sailing signals fly at my fore! 1902 J. J. H. Burgess Some Shetland Folk 77 If du has, I'll knock the bloomin' sowl-bolts out of him. 1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life vi. 234 ‘Wouldn't think that horse had a devil in him as big as a bull-dog,’ observed the horse-driver. ‘Shake the soul-bolt out of a man, s'posen you do stick to him.’ < as lemmas |
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