英语词汇“to sink the shop”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†P5. colloquial. to sink the shop: to avoid mentioning one's trade or business; also used attributively to designate the convention of not discussing work in social situations; cf. shop n. 7. Obsolete.

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1805 Cecily Fitz-Owen I. 260 ‘Sink the shop, for God's sake!’ drawled a sallow faced young man,..‘or I shall imagine myself the associate of grocers, butchers, and tallow-chandlers.’

1824 Ladies' Monthly Museum July 35 ‘Sink the shop!’ echoed Paul, ‘I won't sink the shop;—the shop raised me, and hang me, if I return such ingratitude to an old friend. I am not ashamed of people knowing I once kept a shop.’

1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember I. 301 He, as well as I, utterly scouted the stupid sink-the-shop rule of conversation.

1913 Outlook 6 Sept. 53/1 The effort of a busy man to ‘sink the shop’ in his hours of ease.

单词	to sink the shop
释义	> as lemmas to sink the shop †P5. colloquial. to sink the shop: to avoid mentioning one's trade or business; also used attributively to designate the convention of not discussing work in social situations; cf. shop n. 7. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1805 Cecily Fitz-Owen I. 260 ‘Sink the shop, for God's sake!’ drawled a sallow faced young man,..‘or I shall imagine myself the associate of grocers, butchers, and tallow-chandlers.’ 1824 Ladies' Monthly Museum July 35 ‘Sink the shop!’ echoed Paul, ‘I won't sink the shop;—the shop raised me, and hang me, if I return such ingratitude to an old friend. I am not ashamed of people knowing I once kept a shop.’ 1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember I. 301 He, as well as I, utterly scouted the stupid sink-the-shop rule of conversation. 1913 Outlook 6 Sept. 53/1 The effort of a busy man to ‘sink the shop’ in his hours of ease. extracted from sinkv. < as lemmas
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