| 单词 | to ride a person on a rail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride (also run) a person (out) on a rail P5. Originally U.S. to ride (also run) a person (out) on a rail: to carry or parade a person astride a rail as a punishment (now historical); (figurative) to punish or drive away with ridicule. ΚΠ 1818 Niles' Reg. 15 126/1 She was way-laid in the evening by the ruffians, placed upon a rail, and rode in that manner quite a mile and a half.] 1834 New Eng. Mag. 7 455 The mill-men resolved to bestow public honors on Dominicus Pike, only hesitating whether to tar and feather him, ride him on a rail, or refresh him with an ablution at the town-pump. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxi. 267 ‘If I can realise your meaning, ride me on a rail!’ returned the General. 1900 Congress. Rec. 5 Feb. 1521/2 Up in Maine..they mobbed two preachers, tarred and feathered them, and rode them on a rail because they preached the doctrine of Jesus Christ. 1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day xviii. 437 They ought to be jailed, run out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered. 1975 J. Gores Hammett (1976) i. 17 They just about ran him out of St. Mary's County, Maryland, on a rail. 1991 Outrage Feb. 40/1 They're probably not fresh faces at all—perhaps they've just been ridden out of Adelaide on a rail. < as lemmas |
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