| 单词 | to swear like a trooper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto swear like a trooper b. In various colloquial and slang phrases, esp. to swear like a trooper. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [verb (intransitive)] > swear or use profanity > excessively to swear like a trooper1810 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 239 She curses and storms at me like a Trooper. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) You will die the death of a trooper's horse, that is with your shoes on, a jocular method of telling any one he will be hanged. 1810 Sporting Mag. 36 122 The fellow..swore like a trooper. 1812 Countess Granville Let. 12 Sept. (1894) I. 41 William Lamb laughs and eats like a trooper. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xli Jack was heard below, swearing like a trooper. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 443 A friend of his, ‘eques fortissimus’, i.e. one who lied like a trooper. 1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors iv. 160 Juventus..swears like a trooper. < as lemmas |
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