| 单词 | to swear like a tinker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto swear like a tinker P3. In various similative expressions relating to the low repute of tinkers, as to swear like a tinker, as drunk as a tinker, etc. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Il iure comme vn Abbé [etc.], [he swears] like a Tinker, say we. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iv. i. 207 [He] swore like a dozen of drunken Tinkers. 1705 S. Centlivre Gamester i. i. 3 Behold his Picture..no Powder in his Perriwig,..Sword-knot unty'd; no Gloves, and Hands and Face as dirty as a Tinker. 1848 Freeman's Jrnl. 23 Feb. He had nothing to offer in defence except the indisputable fact that he was as drunk as a tinker when he was chase-ing up and down through the gutter in Thomas-street. 1964 H. Speier tr. H. J. Christoffel Courage, Adventuress ii. 96 I assiduously learned how to swear like a trooper and to drink like a tinker. 2000 B. Kingsolver Prodigal Summer xxi. 347 She wondered what kind of parental substitute she was—encouraging Crys to swear like a tinker, for instance. < as lemmas |
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