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单词 to ride on the rigging
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to ride on the rigging (of)
d. Chiefly Scottish. to ride on the rigging (of): to be preoccupied, overzealous, or overly officious (with respect to). Sc. National Dict. records this sense as still in use in Fife in 1955.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)] > be officious or exceed one's duties
to go above or beyond one's latchet1580
to ride on the rigging (of)1683
1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Pure Nat. Dial. 9 He can Leov the House weel that has Tibb in, And nut be allwayes Riding 'oth Riggin.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 37 A Man may love the Kirk well enough, and not ride on the riggen of it.
1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 6 Allowing that it [sc. religious devotion] is ever so beautiful, and ever so beneficial, were we to ride on the rigging of it at all times, would we not be constantly making a farce of it.
1858 J. Wilson Hawick & its Old Memories 127 That individual, having been deemed to be riding on the rigging of his commission in exacting excessive custom, justified himself by abusing the bailies.
1875 G. MacDonald Malcolm I. xv An ill-conditioned, snarling fellow, who ‘rade on the riggin o's authority’.
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xi. 181 A man may like the kirk weel eneuch, and no be aye ridin' on the riggin' o't.
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