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单词 to sway on all top ropes
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to sway (also swing) on all top ropes
P1. slang or colloquial. to sway (also swing) on all top ropes: to behave in a high-spirited or wildly exuberant manner; spec. to behave in a riotous or drunken way. Later also to be on the top ropes: to be in high spirits. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > riotous excitement > behave with riotous excitement [verb (intransitive)]
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to play up1849
to whoop things up1873
to raise sand1892
to raise (also kick up, play, etc.) merry hell1931
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > act in thoroughgoing manner > go to great lengths
to go (all, etc.) lengths1698
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum (at cited word) To sway on all top ropes; to live riotously or extravagantly.
1833 Amer. Monthly Mag. Dec. 252 Away then for London they started and ‘swayed away upon all top-ropes’.
1868 W. Pengelly in H. Pengelly Mem. W. Pengelly (1897) xii. 188 The veteran..was on the top ropes about the meeting.
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