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

a. North American. to skin the cat: to pull one's body over a bar by hanging from it by the hands and passing the feet and legs between the arms. Also figurative and in extended use.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > take part in gymnastics [verb (intransitive)] > actions or positions

to skin the cat1844

to chin the bar1903

kip1909

pike1956

press1956

trampoline1972

1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) v. 44 Thinks I to myself, how it would stonish 'em all now to see me skin the cat.

1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. i. 199 Their several diversions, snapping-the-whip, skinning-the-cat, racing round the Meeting-house, or what not.

1888 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Story of Keedon Bluffs v. 88 He did not wait a second but ‘skinned the cat’ among the rafters.

1905 N.Y. Evening Post 14 Oct. We have learned how to hide behind the back log of ‘environment’ or to ‘skin the cat’ in morality on the score of ‘heredity’.

1931 Sun (Baltimore) 29 May 12/7 You saw them skin the cat On the high trapeze.

1946 B. Treadwell Big Bk. of Swing 125/2 Skin the cat; ride, brother, ride.

1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 254 Nobody could skin the cat like Essie at the age of ten.

单词	to skin the cat
释义	> as lemmas to skin the cat a. North American. to skin the cat: to pull one's body over a bar by hanging from it by the hands and passing the feet and legs between the arms. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > take part in gymnastics [verb (intransitive)] > actions or positions to skin the cat1844 to chin the bar1903 kip1909 pike1956 press1956 trampoline1972 1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) v. 44 Thinks I to myself, how it would stonish 'em all now to see me skin the cat. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. i. 199 Their several diversions, snapping-the-whip, skinning-the-cat, racing round the Meeting-house, or what not. 1888 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Story of Keedon Bluffs v. 88 He did not wait a second but ‘skinned the cat’ among the rafters. 1905 N.Y. Evening Post 14 Oct. We have learned how to hide behind the back log of ‘environment’ or to ‘skin the cat’ in morality on the score of ‘heredity’. 1931 Sun (Baltimore) 29 May 12/7 You saw them skin the cat On the high trapeze. 1946 B. Treadwell Big Bk. of Swing 125/2 Skin the cat; ride, brother, ride. 1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 254 Nobody could skin the cat like Essie at the age of ten. extracted from skinv. < as lemmas
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