| 单词 | to pay with the fore-topsail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pay with the fore-topsail 10. transitive and intransitive. Nautical slang. to pay with the fore-topsail and variants: to leave without paying (one's debts or one's creditors). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > non-payment > be unpaid (of money, wages, etc.) [verb (intransitive)] > leave without paying to pay with the fore-topsail1834 to jump one's bill1888 swedge1897 to skip (one's) bail1900 society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage > leave port > without paying dues to pay with the fore-topsail1834 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. viii. 213 I said, the midshipmen had paid their crockery bill with the fore-topsail. 1843 J. F. Cooper Ned Myers 149 We sailed next morning, and I paid for the poor ‘nigger’ with the foretopsail. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket ii. 12 The middies were busy raising loans to liquidate the demands of their laundress, or else—in the navy phrase—preparing to pay their creditors with a flying fore-topsail. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 312 He had been paying somebody with the ‘fore-topsail sheet’. 1910 D. W. Bone Brassbounder 262 Paid 'ee wi' tawps'l sheets, didn't 'e? 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 158 Pay debts with flying topsails,..sail away without paying debts. < as lemmas |
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