单词 | to put a match to |
释义 | > as lemmasto put (also set) a match to (also in, under) P1. to put (also set) a match to (also in, under): to set on fire by means of a match. ΚΠ 1813 J. K. Paulding Lay of Sc. Fiddle ii. ix. 189 (note) Soon after the arrival of the first settlers, some Indians were employed by them, to drag a cannon by a long rope. While engaged in this business, some person..put a match to the touch-hole, and destroyed nearly every soul of them. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream xiv. 157 For two pins I'd put a match in every gunyah on the place. 1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence xxxii. 326 Archer..turned up the light, and put a match to the brackets on each side of the library mantelpiece. 1991 M. Duffy Illuminations (1992) 133 Hetty..lays a firelighter in a nest of kindling, sets a match to it. < as lemmas |
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