| 单词 | to put the pot on a person |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put the pot on a person P10. Australian and New Zealand slang. to put a person's pot on (also to put the pot on a person): to inform or tell tales against a person; to destroy a person's prospects. Also occasionally to put the pot on. Cf. pot v.4 8. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail in [verb (transitive)] > cause to fail bringc1175 abort?1548 foil1548 ruin1593 to throw out1821 to put a person's pot on1864 mucker1869 collapse1883 to fix (someone's) wagon1951 1864 Bell's Life in Sydney 4 June 2/6 The police are..severely censured..for ‘neglect of duty’, and they, in turn, ‘put the pot on’ magistrates for the mischievous leniency they show. 1899 Truth (Sydney) 24 Sept. 7/1 P. M. Caswell ‘Puts the Pot on’ the In Camera process. 1908 ‘G. Seagram’ Bushmen All 18 ‘You fool,’ rejoined Dick pleasantly. ‘That temper of yours will hang you yet. As it is, you've put the pot on fairly well.’ 1935 F. D. Davison & B. Nicholls Blue Coast Caravan 178 He saw some blacks..standing on the platform under guard of a policeman. ‘Hullo, what's up?’ One of them replied, ‘Aw, somebody's been putting our pot on.’ 1957 V. Palmer Seedtime 119 There's an election coming on, and there's a chance I'll be dumped... This afternoon's work has probably put my pot on. 1985 B. Mitcalfe Hey Hey Hey 121 The cheek of them! I didn't ‘put their pot on’. < as lemmas |
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