| 单词 | to look two ways for sunday |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look two (also both, seven, etc.) ways for Sunday (a) to look two (also both, seven, etc.) ways for Sunday: to have a squint. Cf. to look nine ways at way n.1 and int.1 Phrases 7c(a). ΚΠ 1777 W. Tooke tr. Lett. in tr. E. M. Falconet & D. Diderot Pieces on Sculpt. 62 This manner of looking has existed no where, that I know of, but in the proverb, He looks two ways for Sunday [Fr. il regarde du côté de la Bourgogne pour voir si la Champagne brûle]; or in this, He has one eye at St. Paul's and the other at Charing-cross. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Squint-a-pipes A squinting man or woman; said to be born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for Sunday. 1833 J. Galt Stories of Study II. 194 Ye want to ken mine [sc. name]?—but ye'll look two ways for Sunday before I'm explicit. 1869 A. Macdonald Love, Law & Theol. xxi. 451 He has..a bad squint, so that..he seemed to be looking two ways for Sunday. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 210/1 Look seven ways for Sunday, squint. < as lemmas |
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