| 单词 | to part brass-rags |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto part brass-rags brass-rag n. in slang phr. (originally Nautical slang) to part brass-rags, to quarrel. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] threapc1175 disputea1225 thretec1400 varyc1450 fray1465 to fall out1470 to set (or fall) at variancec1522 quarrel1530 square1530 to break a straw1542 to be or to fall at (a) square1545 to fall at jar1552 cowl1556 tuilyie1565 jarl1580 snarl1597 to fall foul1600 to cast out1730 fisticuff1833 spat1848 cagmag1882 rag1889 to part brass-rags1898 hassle1949 blue1955 1898 W. P. Drury Tadpole of Archangel 141 The graceful figures stiffened, passing each other with..eyes fixed on futurity... ‘Don't you know that we've parted brassrags?’ 1898 W. P. Drury Tadpole of Archangel 142 When ‘Pincher’ Martin, Ordinary, and ‘Nobby’ Clarke, A.B., desire to prove the brotherly love..with which each inspires the other, it is their..custom to keep their brasswork cleaning rags in a joint ragbag. But, should relations..become strained between them, the bag owner casts forth upon the deck..his sometime brother's rags; and with the parting of the brassrags hostilities begin. 1903 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 49 You'll shut your mouth..or you an' me'll part brass rags. 1916 Punch 186/2 They had ‘parted brass-rags’ over Gallipoli, it was true. 1922 C. Sidgwick Victorian vii If you dare to use that word flapper in my hearing..we part brass rags. 1959 Economist 14 Mar. 979/2 He seems to have finally parted brass rags with the Arab nationalists and President Nasser. < as lemmas |
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