| 单词 | to set them up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto set them up f. U.S. To put (drink, etc.) before customers for their consumption; hence, to ‘treat’ to (drinks, cigars). Also in to set them up, to provide free drinks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] birleOE drenchc1000 shenchOE adrenchc1275 to drink to1297 tap1401 skinkc1405 propinec1450 brince?1567 liquor1575 to do right1600 dram1770 butler1826 jerk1868 to set up1880 drink1883 bartend1948 to break out1962 1880 A. A. Hayes in Harper's Mag. Jan. 209/1 You bet he lived high; always set up the drinks. 1883 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang iii. 47 Then he swore, and cussed the ‘demmed country, you know’, but finally got into good humor, and set 'em up all round. 1884 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Aug. A counter where the beer could be set up. 1888 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 9 Nov. 2/6 Well, we must make him set up the cigars on that happy event. 1906 C. de L. Canfield Diary of Forty-Niner ix. 83 Of course, it was drinks all around; you can't do anything in this country without setting 'em up first. 1949 C. Himes Mama's Missionary Money in Crisis Nov. 305/2 He set up all the boys in the neighborhood to peanut brittle and icecream and rock candy. 1965 G. Melly Owning-up vi. 64 In exchange for a song or two from me, he was prepared to set them up all night. < as lemmas |
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