| 单词 | to sweat on the top-line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sweat on the top-line c. intransitive. With on, to await anxiously (an event or person); spec. in the game of lotto. Also transferred, to be close to attaining, as in to sweat on the top-line. slang (chiefly Australian). Originally Military. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (intransitive)] > be close to attaining to sweat on the top-line1917 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait for, await [verb (transitive)] > anxiously sweat1917 to bob on1925 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > bingo or lotto > [verb (transitive)] > await result anxiously sweat1917 1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step xix. 127 Sometimes you have fourteen numbers on your card covered and you are waiting for the fifteenth to be called. In an imploring voice you call out, ‘Come on, Watkins, chum, I'm sweating on “Kelly's Eye”.’ 1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step xix. 252 Sweating on leave. Impatiently waiting for your name to appear in orders for leave. 1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/2 ‘Sweating on the top line’ is to be within an ace of obtaining what you want. 1959 S. J. Baker Drum 150 Sweat on, to wait, usually to wait anxiously (for something to happen). 1968 S. L. Elliott Rusty Bugles in E. Hanger Three Austral. Plays i. iv. 62 Wimpy sweats on me see..waits his chance..puts on a hut raid the other night and finds me mosquito net's not down and I lose my stripes. < as lemmas |
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