| 单词 | to shake a leg |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shake a leg f. to shake a foot, to shake a hoof (U.S.), to shake a leg (also, to hurry), to shake a toe, to shake one's bones, to shake feet, to shake heels, to shake a hough (Scottish), to shake shanks; also to shake it = to dance (Obsolete exc. U.S. Black English); also, to shake that thing. Also †transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > [verb (intransitive)] frikec1000 sail1297 dancec1300 sault1377 tripc1386 balea1400 hopc1405 foota1425 tracec1425 sallyc1440 to dance a fita1500 fling1528 to tread a measure, a dance1577 trip1578 traverse1584 move1594 to shake heels1595 to shake it1595 firk1596 tripudiate1623 pettitoe1651 step1698 jink1718 to stand up1753 bejig1821 to toe and heel (it)1828 morris1861 hoof1925 terp1945 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry hiec1250 skelta1400 hasty?a1425 hasten1534 festinate1652 to look sharp1680 to make play1799 hurry-scurry1809 to tumble up1826 crowd1838 rush1859 hurry1871 to get a move on1888 hurry and scurry1889 to buck up1890 to get a hump on1892 to get a wiggle on1896 to shake a leg1904 to smack it about1914 flurry1917 to step on it (her)1923 to make it snappy1926 jildi1930 to get an iggri on1946 ert- 1661 Thrac. Wonder ii. C 4 Son, set down thy Hook, and shake it lustily. 1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest iv. 61 Now wou'd I lay greatness aside, and shake my heels, if I had but Musick. 1828 J. Ruddiman Tales & Sketches 62 When he shakes his bowed houghs to the sound o' Rab Murray's creaking catgut. 1830 J. B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore ii. i Dance with? with me, to be sure; though I hav'n't shaken a toe these twenty years. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xvii They hav'nt a lilt to shake their bones to. 1848 Buffalo Gals (song) 3 I ax'd her would she hab a dance... I taught dat I might get a chance, To shake a foot wid her. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Mr. Malony's Acc. Ball x, in Punch 19 53 And I'd like to hear the pipers blow, And shake a fut with Fanny there! 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Ten Years' Tenant v It would be positively indecent for a man at a hundred to shake a leg as merrily as a man at thirty. 1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xviii. 61 I explain that the stage is ready for them, if they like to act;..or the dancing-room, should they wish to shake a leg. 1884 D. Grant Lays & Legends of North 99 Resolved to shak' their heels,..In jigs and Highland reels. 1904 N.Y. World Mag. 1 May 6/3 Shake a leg..meaning to ‘hurry up’. 1927 Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. 22 16 ‘Shake it’, ‘shake that thing’, etc. Such expressions are very frequent in the blues. Ostensibly they refer to dancing, but they are really Negro vulgar expressions relating to coitus. 1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry xxv. 333 Come on, Reverend. I bet you can shake a hoof as good as anybody! The wife says she's gotta dance with you! 1935 F. M. Davis Black Man's Verse 34 Strut it in Harlem, let Fifth Avenue shake it slow Plink plank plink a plink. 1952 P. G. Wodehouse Barmy in Wonderland viii. 82 ‘Clean this place up.’.. ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘And shake a leg.’ 1967 M. C. Melnick in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 273/1 If you shake it, I'll buy you a diamond ring. < as lemmas |
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