| 单词 | to work one's tail off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto work one's tail off a. The lower and hinder part of the human body; the fundament, posteriors, buttocks, backside. tail over top = top over tail at top n.1 and adj. Phrases 3b. Now dialect and colloquial (chiefly U.S., esp. in figurative phrases, as to work one's tail off, to work strenuously). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [phrase] > head over heels tail over top1303 top over tailc1330 heels over headc1400 tail and top1558 head over heels1678 over head and heels1678 heels over gowdy1751 head over tip1824 arse over tip1922 ass over tea-kettle1963 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun] flitcha700 arse-endseOE culec1220 buttockc1300 tail1303 toutec1305 nagea1325 fundamentc1325 tail-end1377 brawna1382 buma1387 bewschers?a1400 crouponc1400 rumplec1430 lendc1440 nachec1440 luddocka1475 rearwarda1475 croupc1475 rumpc1475 dock1508 hurdies1535 bunc1538 sitting place1545 bottom?c1550 prat1567 nates1581 backside1593 crupper1594 posteriorums1596 catastrophe1600 podex1601 posterior1605 seat1607 poop1611 stern1631 cheek1639 breeka1642 doup1653 bumkin1658 bumfiddle1661 assa1672 butt1675 quarter1678 foundation1681 toby1681 bung1691 rear1716 fud1722 moon1756 derrière1774 rass1790 stern-post1810 sit-down1812 hinderland1817 hinderling1817 nancy1819 ultimatum1823 behinda1830 duff?1837 botty1842 rear end1851 latter end1852 hinder?1857 sit1862 sit-me-down1866 stern-works1879 tuchus1886 jacksy-pardy1891 sit-upon1910 can1913 truck-end1913 sitzfleisch1916 B.T.M.1919 fanny1919 bot1922 heinie1922 beam1929 yas yas1929 keister1931 batty1935 bim1935 arse-end1937 twat1937 okole1938 bahookie1939 bohunkus1941 quoit1941 patoot1942 rusty-dusty1942 dinger1943 jacksie1943 zatch1950 ding1957 booty1959 patootie1959 buns1960 wazoo1961 tush1962 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 5416 Þarfor shul þey..Go to helle, both top and tayle. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 70 Into þe waise þam fro he tombled top ouer taile. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 16727 He bar him tayl ouer top, That he lay ther as a sop. ?a1500 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) II. 176 Thou take hym by the toppe and I by the tayle. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 279/1 Tayle or arse, queue or cul. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 81 He was forbidden to sitte on his taille & was charged to stand vpon his feete. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 97 They go Barefoot, and all in Tattars that hardly cover their Tails. 1879 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women viii. 89 Ever since that time she has had pain in what she calls her ‘tail’. 1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day iv. 86 This idea of sweating your tail off with work..is the undiluted crap. 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 229 This is the first time you've had your tail out of that kitchen since we got here except to chop a little wood. 1969 New Yorker 14 June 72/3 Go out there and work your tail off. Don't wake up tomorrow morning regretting that you didn't give a hundred per cent. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 1 July 4- e/1 I worked my tail off to help win a pennant for the Dodgers. < as lemmas |
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