| 单词 | to stick to the shop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stick to the (also one's) shop P11. to stick to the (also one's) shop: to continue working; to continue in one's profession or business. Hence: to mind one's own business. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > run a business [verb (intransitive)] > continue a business to stick to the shopa1695 a1695 J. Kettlewell Five Disc. (1696) iv. 122 The Tradesman will stick to his Shop from morning till night. 1768 T. Underwood Poems 182 Stick to your Shop—the Devils swear Your Holiness is seldom there. 1826 J. Bannister Let. in Sotheran's Catal. No. 12 (1899) 1 I shall ‘stick to the shop’ till I quit the stage of life. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. iv. 123 Cricket is a recreation, not a business... Stick to the shop like a man, and make your fortune. 1982 M. L. Young Gambling as Motif in Late Eighteenth-Cent. Drama ii. 58 The baron dismissed that impertinence by suggesting that the merchant stick to his shop. < as lemmas |
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