| 单词 | to raise a stink |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto raise (kick up, make) a stink a. slang. (See quots. 1819 and 1851.) Also, a row or fuss; a furore. Now chiefly in phrases to raise (kick up, make) a stink. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > fright caused by alarm frighta1325 affrayc1380 fray1398 gloppeninga1400 alarma1460 scare1548 affright1566 affrightment1593 aghastment1594 surprise1609 gastc1686 gliff1732 stew1806 stink1819 feeze1825 startlement1927 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > a scandal or infamous event or state of things mislander1531 scandal1613 scanmag1781 stink1819 affair1823 esclandre1832 scandalum magnatum1850 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) When any robbery of moment has been committed, which causes much alarm, or of which much is said in the daily papers, the family people will say, there is a great stink about it. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 250/2 The newspapers..had raised before the eye and mind of the public, what the ‘patterers’ of his class proverbially call a ‘stink’,—that is, had opened the eyes of the unwary to the movements of ‘Chelsea George’. 1907 J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster xii. 131 Them topsails had a good look along the yard..or there was a jim hickey of a stink raised. 1913 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures (1917) 293 We mustn't be tried! It'll make an infernal international stink. 1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 81 Do you do it merely because there's a stink if you don't? 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ii. 31 I remember the Russians kicking up a stink. 1959 ‘M. Cronin’ Dead & Done With iv. 56 The first thing he'd do when he got back was see his M.P. and kick up a stink. 1976 L. Sanders Hamlet Warning (1977) iii. 31 [She] commanded a world press. She could raise a tremendous stink if she chose to do so. < as lemmas |
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