| 单词 | to settle the number of a person's mess |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto settle the number of a person's mess P5. slang (originally Military and Navy). to lose the number of one's mess: to die, to be killed. So to settle the number of a person's mess: to cause a person's death. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)] > be killed to be deadc1000 fallOE spilla1300 suffera1616 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) toa1774 to lose the number of one's mess1807 to go up1825 to get his (also hers, theirs)1903 to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet1916 click1917 not to know (or to wonder) what hit one1923 to get the works1928 to go for a burton1941 (to get) the chop or chopper1945 the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)] to be the death ofOE slayc1000 reavec1230 dissolvec1374 visita1382 extinguish1540 expiate1594 to carry away1603 to carry off1679 devive1869 to settle the number of a person's mess1881 1807 in A. Paget Paget Papers (1896) II. 314 If we are going against Copenhagen many of us will lose the number of our mess. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiv. 240 I have an idea that some of us will lose the number of our mess. 1881 J. F. T. Keane Six Months in Meccah 60 Fetching me one on the skull, that would have ‘settled the number of my mess’, but for the thickness of my too attractive head-dress. 1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxx. 260 That meant a ride out to the blacks' camp and some of them losing the number of their mess. It did not matter who was shot. 1931 in H. M. Tomlinson Best Short Stories of War 387 It's the like o' them nine inchers can lose ye the number of yer mess, just by the blast of its passing. < as lemmas |
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