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单词 to say boo to a person's blanket
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to say boo to a person's blanket
b. Scottish. to say boo to a person's blanket and variants: to reproach or criticize a person in the slightest. Only in negative constructions. Cf. to say bo to a person's blanket at bo int. Phrases 2. Obsolete.
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1770 Hamilton's Life Surprising Adventure & Heroic Actions William Wallace (ESTC 170663) xii. ii. 238 After that no man had ought to say. Nor once durst give him but a saucy look, Or yet play boo unto his blanket nook.
1883 J. Christie in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets 6th Ser. 266 Be honest, and eident, and thrify, That nane may say ‘boo’ to your blanket.
1928 in Sc. National Dict. (1941) II. 192/1 ‘Canna say boo tae yer blanket’ would mean in Buchan ‘cannot cast a slur on your character’.
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