单词 | to stand home |
释义 | > as lemmasto stand (at) home 15. intransitive. colloquial and regional (chiefly U.S. and Caribbean). With adverb, adverbial phrase, or noun complement. To stay or remain in a specified place. Frequently in to stand (at) home: to stay at home.The catchphrase I should have stood in bed, with the sense ‘I should not have bothered’, was apparently first used by boxing manager Joe Jacobs in 1935 when asked what he thought of his first baseball game (see quot. 19361, which alludes to Jacobs' use, and quot. 19362). [In the catchphrase, probably originally after Yiddish shteyn to stand, (also) to remain ( < Middle High German stān), whose past participle geshtanen can mean both ‘stood’ and ‘stayed’.] ΚΠ 1910 Princeton (Minnesota) Union 13 Oct. 6/3 You tried to inaugurate the equity plan but you failed. You see you should have stood at home not entering the dealing system. 1914 Supreme Court Appellate Div. Case on Appeal (N.Y.) 154 Q. When you got home what did you do ? A. I stood home. Q. What do you mean by you ‘stood’ home ? A. I could not go out any place. 1936 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Evening Tribune 9 June 14/3 He looks sluggish, see what I mean? He should have stood in bed... Louis is getting up, he must be crazy, he shoulda stood on the floor. 1936 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 30 Dec. 4/3 Funniest lines of 1935:..Joe Jacobs, ‘I should have stood in bed.’ 1943 New Yorker 6 Mar. 13/2 ‘They should of stood in the city,’ Frank the Crank put in, plainly concerned over the fate of the pioneers. 1960 Professional Boxing: Hearings before Subcomm. on Antitrust & Monopoly (U.S. Senate, 86th Congr., 2nd Sess.) I. 169 He said, ‘Just don't exert yourself and don't do any boxing.’ I stood home about two days in bed. 1976 Nation (Bridgetown, Barbados) 12 Dec. 1 in R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (1996) 527/2 Men feel that..we must stand home and mind babies. 2005 in M. Chamberlain Narratives Exile & Return (ed. 2) viii. 156 When you can't got the penny to send, we had to stand at home. We had enough thing to do to help our mother. 2020 @brittnneeboo 20 May in twitter.com (accessed 11 November 2021) i could of easily stood at home with my baby cause it's so hard to leave her! < as lemmas |
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