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单词 to show water
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to show water
P8. to show water: (apparently) to offer an inducement. Obsolete.The expression appears to have originated in falconry, although the precise sense in quot. 1575 is unclear.
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > lay down money
to show water1632
to post the cole1781
to come down with the money (dust, needful, etc.)1836
to lay (or put) it on the line1929
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 154 Lette hir flee with hir head into the wind, hauing first giuen shew to youre company that they be in a readinesse against the Hawke bee at a good gate, and to shewe water, and lay out the fowle.
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour i. i. sig. B1v Fulgen. If you have a suite, shew water, I am blinde else. Ador. A suite, yet of a nature, not to prove The quarrie that you hawke for.
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