单词 | to take for a ride |
释义 | > as lemmasto take for a ride Phrases P1. a. colloquial. for the ride: for pleasure or fun; as an observer only. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > mere amusement > [adverb] of or on the spleenc1460 for love1678 for fun1750 for the fun of the thing1751 for the fun of it1823 good for a laugh1835 for the ride1863 (just) for the hell of it1908 pour le sport1924 for (the) shits and giggles (also grins)1983 1863 ‘M. Harland’ Col. Floyd's Wards xvii, in Husks 505 Lily would like to go to the court-house this forenoon, just for the ride, you know, and I think the air and exercise will do her good. 1896 C. H. Haswell Reminisc. N.Y. xxiv. 484 Large open sleighs drawn by four and sometimes six horses were resorted to, and many individuals and parties enjoyed these for the ride alone. 1924 Los Angeles Times 6 Nov. ii. 4/3 Many a young man or girl enters the marital state with about as much real sentiment as that of a person going to a funeral just for the ride. 1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: Orig. Scroll (2007) 230 I only went along for the ride, and to see what else Neal was going to do. 1977 J. Wainwright Nest of Rats ii. iv. 167 I wouldn't know—I am along strictly for the ride. 2006 V. Spinetti & P. Rankin Victor Spinetti up Front xiv. 156 That's who they were. Relatives of the producer and the associate producer and so on, coming for the ride. b. free ride: see as a main entry. P2. full ride: see full ride n. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 1b. P3. U.S. out of ride: (of a river) too swollen to be able to be crossed on horseback. Now rare. ΚΠ 1855 M. E. Wormeley Our Cousin Veronica xvi. 297 The river is full and rising, but not ‘out of ride’, as several persons have crossed it since the morning. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) at Riding Rock A stream is said to be ‘out of ride’ when it is past fording [on horseback]. 1918 S. Ely Centennial Hist. Villages Iroquois & Montgomery 23 [Quoting talk given in 1879] ‘Stop, stop, that stream is out of ride.’ That was something I had not heard before and I did not know what it meant... I backed my horse around and got out of the stream. P4. colloquial. to have (also give) a rough (also easy, etc.) ride: to have or give a difficult, easy, etc., time or experience. ΚΠ 1955 G. P. Chapman Dreyfus Case xv. 284 Two groups..rioted in the neighbourhood, and the police had a rough ride before breaking up the mobs. 1969 S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret ii. 234 Judging by what he said on the phone, he won't give you an easy ride. 1974 Times 5 Nov. 15/1 President Giscard d'Estaing has had a fairly quiet ride until now. 1978 Times 17 Jan. 19/5 Union officials..met the new Leyland chief... He was given a rough ride. 1993 Tatler July 98/1 I got off to a good start and was having an easy ride. 2002 N.Y. Times 12 May iv. 5/4 Hungary, like its neighbors, has had a bumpy ride during the last 12 years of democracy. P5. to take for a ride and variants (originally North American). a. colloquial. To tease; to mislead deliberately, to deceive, hoax, cheat. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > play tricks [phrase] to do or make a blenk or blencha1250 to play (a person) a pageant1530 to give one the geck1568 to play a paw1568 to draw through the water with a cat1631 come1714 to run one's rig upon1793 to come (the) paddy over1809 to work a traverse1840 to go on, have, take a lark1884 to pull a fast one1912 to take for a ride1925 to pull a person's pissera1935 to pull a person's chain1975 1925 Dial. Notes 5 344 Newfoundland Dialect Terms... Take for a ride, jolly; josh. 1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. iv. ii. 283 ‘Do you mean that?’ asked Mr. Adelaide nervously. ‘Nonsense,’ said Mr. Boles. ‘He's taking you for a ride.’ 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. i. 203 But for Vin, there were winks and the tongue stuck in the cheek, the wide boy who wasn't to be taken for a ride by anyone. 1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green ix. 43 She said, quickly,..‘Are you an expert?’.. I said, ‘Not at all... You could take me for a ride any day you chose.’ 2003 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 32/2 It has called in forensic accountants..fearing that some businesses may be taking the public purse for a ride. b. Chiefly U.S. Criminals' slang. To take on a car journey for the purpose of murdering or kidnapping. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > kidnap or abduct [verb (transitive)] > take on a journey with intention of to take for a ride1925 1925 Chicago Tribune 22 July 3/1 Gunmen executed one of their fellows yesterday after ‘taking him for a ride’. 1933 P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather i. 12 Perhaps some Duke who doesn't want to see himself in the ‘Peers I Have Been Thrown Out Of Public Houses With’ chapter has been threatening to take him for a ride. 1979 T. Barling Olympic Sleeper ix. 103 Not Costas driving... They must be dumping the cab. Or taking Costas for a ride. 2008 J. Sialiano So You wanna be Mobster 19 That Luciano survived being ‘taken for a ride’, he became something of a legend, the man they couldn't kill. < as lemmas |
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