单词 | to take rust |
释义 | > as lemmasto take (also nab) (the) rust to take (also nab) (the) rust: (of a horse) to become restive; (hence of a person) to take offence; (also) to become angry or sulky. Cf. rusty adj.3 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [verb (intransitive)] > be or become restive to play his vagary1566 to take (also nab) (the) rust1785 flisk1786 strivea1824 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Nab To nab the rust, a jockey term for a horse that becomes restive. 1787 G. Colman Prose Several Occasions I. 201 His brown horse, Orator, took rust, ran out of the course, and was distanced. 1837 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 127 My horse..shied at a road waggon, and then ‘took the rust’, which I fetched out of him instanter. 1860 Slang Dict. (ed. 2) 204 To nab the rust, to take offence. 1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 65 That I know ont sute the old chap (master), whose temper is as short as piecrust, and will sune nab the rust when things go ungain. 2006 P. Muldoon Horse Latitudes 19 The dragoon nonplussed by his charger taking the rust. < as lemmas |
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