| 单词 | to put one's feet under mahogany |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put one's feet under (another's) mahogany ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > dining table meat-boardc1275 tablec1330 meat-table1381 dining table1553 board1606 dinner table1785 mahogany1837 trough1930 1830 Sir J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times I. xv To give offence..by calling the Whigs an ‘eating and drinking club’,..what they call in Ireland mahogany acquaintances.] 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlviii. 520 He having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxi. 119 Other families did not welcome us to their mahogany. 1850 Florists' Jrnl. 149 Nearly forty gathered round Mr. Lidgard's mahogany after the exhibition. 1891 L. B. Walford Mischief of Monica III. 90 I could have put my feet under his mahogany..with the very greatest satisfaction. < as lemmas |
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