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单词 to pack up one's alls
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to pack up one's alls
c. In plural. One's possessions. Usually in to pack up one's alls. Now regional and rare.A comparable use is found in Old English (in the inflected form ealle) only in an isolated attestation in an interlinear gloss rendering Latin omnia (neuter plural): see quot. OE. [In to pack up one's alls probably a punning alteration of to pack up one's awls (see awl n. 2c).]
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OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) xi. 113 Sunt quidam qui facilius omnia sua pauperibus dei distribuunt quam ut ipsi pauperes dei fiant : synd sume þa eþelicur ealle hyra þearfum godes todælað þænne þæt hi þearfan godes gewyrþan.]
1683 Old New True Blew Protestant-plot (single sheet) Now Oats for Pegs, may pack up his All's, And there inform his Master.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. iii. 67 She..ordered Jenny immediately to pack up her Alls, and be gone. View more context for this quotation
1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village 44 So pack up your alls, and be trudging away.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. vii. 292 I should be a great fool, to pack up my alls when the prize was falling into my hands.
1830 A. Royall Southern Tour I. 153 I shall not go without you, so pack up your alls and be ready.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Alls, goods and chattels, especially workmen's tools. ‘Pack up your alls and slot off’ is a common form of dismissal, used by masters to workmen.
1910 J. Prior Fortuna Chance xxxvii. 438 His widow..gave her an hour to pack up her alls, and sent her off in the post-chaise in which she herself had arrived.
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