| 单词 | to stick it into |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stick it into 1. transitive. slang. to stick it into: to charge (a person) an extortionate amount for something; to defraud. Now rare (Australian in later use). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > charges > [verb (intransitive)] > make excessive charges to lay it ona1593 to stick it into1797 to put it on1843 1797 T. B. Pettyfogger Dramatized i. i. 17 Dam'me, they shan't stick it into me so.—I shall be ruined and starved! 1825 Sydney Gaz. 23 June 2/4 A late adventurer from Tasmania has not only taken the knowing ones in there, but posted to Sydney, stuck it into several of our first merchants. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxvii. 335 In short, my good fellow, we stick it into B up hill and down dale, and make a devilish comfortable little property out of him. 1853 C. Dickens Another Round of Stories: Schoolboy's Story in Househ. Words Extra Christmas No., 1/1 How they do stick it into parents—particularly hair-cutting, and medical attendance. 1947 Wellington (New S. Wales) Times 3 Nov. 2/5 There was a roar of laughter and someone said: ‘Well, you will be able to stick it into him to-morrow.’ < as lemmas |
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