单词 | to touch glasses |
释义 | > as lemmasto touch glasses c. transitive. With plural object. Of two or more people: to bring (objects belonging to each person individually) into contact with one another, as to touch hands, to touch glasses. ΚΠ 1625 tr. G. de la Vega in S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. vii. iv. 1480 This holding of hands in a ring gaue occasion to make the golden Chaine, that they might dance by it without touching hands. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed iii. xii. 381 They never kisse nor touch hands, and use all respect to their women. 1715 M. Prior Down-Hall 173 Now let us touch thumbs, and be friends ere we part. 1761 J. Armstrong Day 18 There lively, genial, friendly, Goy and I, Touch Glasses oft. 1840 Graham's Mag. Dec. 291/2 Come, gentlemen, let us touch glasses. 1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. 109 After the first salutation, by touching noses, they do not remain standing upright, but squat down on their heels. 1917 Our Navy (U.S.) June 44/3 Shorty don't savvy this courtesy thing of touching foils, so when the Spaniard steps out toward him to touch swords Shorty walks up close and spears him right though the shoulder quick. 2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 179 Levi walked through these and touched fists with Marlon and Big James in security. < as lemmas |
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