英语词汇“to play chuck-farthing with”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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to play (at) chuck-farthing with

d. to play (at) chuck-farthing with: to throw away or risk heedlessly. (Cf. ‘to play ducks and drakes with’.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > enter into incautiously or rashly [verb (transitive)] > be reckless with

to play (at) chuck-farthing with1837

1837 S. Smith Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 278/1 Playing at chuck-farthing with human happiness.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Nov. Lord Randolph..declines to ‘play chuck-farthing with the Constitution’.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Dec. 1/1 What are our Imperialist Ministers doing?..they are playing chuckfarthing with the Empire.

extracted from chuck-farthingn.

as lemmas

单词	to play chuck-farthing with
释义	> as lemmas to play (at) chuck-farthing with d. to play (at) chuck-farthing with: to throw away or risk heedlessly. (Cf. ‘to play ducks and drakes with’.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > enter into incautiously or rashly [verb (transitive)] > be reckless with to play (at) chuck-farthing with1837 1837 S. Smith Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 278/1 Playing at chuck-farthing with human happiness. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Nov. Lord Randolph..declines to ‘play chuck-farthing with the Constitution’. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Dec. 1/1 What are our Imperialist Ministers doing?..they are playing chuckfarthing with the Empire. extracted from chuck-farthingn. < as lemmas
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