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单词 to take stunt
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to take (the) stunt
3. dialect. A fit of sulkiness or obstinacy; in to take (the) stunt.This use of the phrase is perhaps a figurative application of that in quot. 1795 at sense 1. But cf. strunt n.2
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [verb (intransitive)] > become ill-humoured
to take the fling(sa1568
to take the strum or strums1788
tout1825
to take (the) stunt1837
stunt1877
1837 T. Hood Blue Boar 34 Now at a line he gave a grunt, Now at a phrase took sudden stunt.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 424 Tuke t' stunt an' went off wi'art speiking.
1890 Sat. Rev. 12 Apr. 446/2 The most probable explanation of his [Ld. Geo. Sackville's] inaction on that occasion [battle of Minden] is that he simply ‘took stunts’, as the Yorkshire phrase has it—a case of sheer sulkiness, not of cowardice.
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