| 单词 | to sling the bat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sling the bat the bat: the colloquial speech of a foreign country; chiefly in to sling the bat. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > a foreign language foreign language1555 uplandish1586 Welsh1598 outlandisha1626 lingo1659 second language1875 the bat1887 target language1965 foreign1971 1887 R. Kipling Three Musketeers in Civil & Mil. Gaz. 11 Mar. 3/1 T' sahib doesn't speak 't bart an' he's a little mon. 1889 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 67 An' 'ow they would admire for to hear us sling the bat. 1919 Athenæum 18 July 632/1 Native words picked up by the soldier in India who learned ‘to sling the bat’ (‘bat’ itself being another native word for ‘the language’). 1919 War Terms in Athenæum 8 Aug. 729/1 A variant for ‘sling the bat’ (speak the lingo) is ‘spin the bat’. 1924 Glasgow Herald 14 Apr. 10 He continued eagerly..‘that in the bat of the Arab “Shmallock” and “Amenak” mean “left” and “right”.’ < as lemmas |
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