单词 | to work the soul case out of |
释义 | > as lemmasto work (also beat, worry, etc.) the soul case out of 2. slang (in later use chiefly U.S. regional (chiefly southern), Australian, and Caribbean). Used in various phrases expressive of violence, hardship, suffering, or distress. Now chiefly in to work (also beat, worry, etc.) the soul case out of: to vex, drive, or punish. Cf. soul-bolt n. ΚΠ 1786 ‘A. Pasquin’ Royal Academicians 25 Silence, you brace of vagabonds! or by the virtues of my shelela I'll leather your soul-cases. 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 109 When you come to the last half mile of each heat, run his heart, liver, lights, and soul-case out of him. 1837 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 16 62 The bully, prating so loudly,..and pledging himself to beat the soul-case out of you. 1896 J. C. Harris Sister Jane 277 The way that hoss flung around wi' you was enough to jolt your soul-case loose. 1898 P. L. Dunbar Folks from Dixie 117 I ain't a-gwine to waih my soul-case outa-tryin' to pinch along an' sta've to def at las'. 1901 F. J. Gillen Diary 15 Apr. (1968) 34 Flies were celebrating some festival all night and worried the very soul cases out of us. 1902 I. Broome Last Days Ruskin Co-op. Assoc. 93 The teachers have quit wearing their soul cases out and let them come and go unnoticed. 1945 G. Casey Downhill is Easier 146 He used t' belt the soulcase out o' her till I come along. 1976 M. Anthony Folk Tales & Fantasies 49 The musicians play out their soul-case and nobody ain't hugging them up. 1995 M. Collins Colour of Forgetting 38 [It was] thanks to the little piece of land, thanks to the fact that both of them working out their soul case on it, that they able to make things work. < as lemmas |
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