英语词汇“to put a hoodoo on”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

to put a (or the) hoodoo on and variants: to curse or bewitch (a person or thing); to bring bad luck to (a person or thing). Cf. hoodoo v. 1, to put voodoo on at voodoo n. Phrases.

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1878 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 21 Oct. 3/2 When the feller you're playin' with, puts the prayer hoodoo on the keerds [i.e. cards],..there ain't no show for such as me.

1879 Daily Examiner (San Francisco) 14 Mar. 1/3 When you see a town gettin' down to Young Men's Christian Associations and readin' rooms,..and the pious fellers git so they tackle you on the street and call you a hoary-headed old sinner,..it's time to move out for another country. It puts a hoodoo on the place.

1921 Everybody's Mag. July 140/2 Our brother here has put a hoodoo on my meetings by saying any man who comes to them has got to fight him afterward.

1948 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 5 Oct. 8/1 A bogy team to Dunfermline Vikings last season were Glasgow Bruins. In the drawn game with Flyers..two ex-Bruins put the hoodoo on Vikings.

2010 Sunday Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. (Culture section) He doesn't want to put a hoodoo on a series that hasn't aired yet by saying it's better than the film.

单词	to put a hoodoo on
释义	> as lemmas to put a (or the) hoodoo on to put a (or the) hoodoo on and variants: to curse or bewitch (a person or thing); to bring bad luck to (a person or thing). Cf. hoodoo v. 1, to put voodoo on at voodoo n. Phrases. ΚΠ 1878 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 21 Oct. 3/2 When the feller you're playin' with, puts the prayer hoodoo on the keerds [i.e. cards],..there ain't no show for such as me. 1879 Daily Examiner (San Francisco) 14 Mar. 1/3 When you see a town gettin' down to Young Men's Christian Associations and readin' rooms,..and the pious fellers git so they tackle you on the street and call you a hoary-headed old sinner,..it's time to move out for another country. It puts a hoodoo on the place. 1921 Everybody's Mag. July 140/2 Our brother here has put a hoodoo on my meetings by saying any man who comes to them has got to fight him afterward. 1948 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 5 Oct. 8/1 A bogy team to Dunfermline Vikings last season were Glasgow Bruins. In the drawn game with Flyers..two ex-Bruins put the hoodoo on Vikings. 2010 Sunday Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. (Culture section) He doesn't want to put a hoodoo on a series that hasn't aired yet by saying it's better than the film. extracted from hoodoon.adj. < as lemmas
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