英语词汇“to trail one's coat”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. to trail one's coat, to seek to pick a quarrel; to be provocative in one's conduct. Cf. to drag his coat-tails, so that some one may tread on them at coat-tail n.

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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > find occasion for quarrelling > give provocation

to trail one's coat1877

to look for (or seek) trouble1901

1864 Realm 13 Apr. 2 Some trailer of coat-tails, looking out for a head to break.]

1877 C. M. Yonge Womankind (ed. 2) xxv. 216 Party spirit is equally ready to give offence and to watch for it. It will trail its coat like the Irishman in the fair.

1923 Daily Mail 7 Feb. 6 This risk [of war] is greatly increased by the presence of British troops at Constantinople and Chanak. Why should we thus be ‘trailing our coats’ before the Turks?

1950 ‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xxxii. 291 I wouldn't put it in a report!.. I don't trail my coat.

1974 Times 4 Nov. 15/1 Nobody trails his coat for another election... There is to be no Commons division on the crisis in agriculture.

1980 J. Ditton Copley's Hunch i. ii. 35 I was trailing my coat... Trying to get the Luftwaffe to come up and fight.

单词	to trail one's coat
释义	> as lemmas to trail one's coat d. to trail one's coat, to seek to pick a quarrel; to be provocative in one's conduct. Cf. to drag his coat-tails, so that some one may tread on them at coat-tail n. ΘΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > find occasion for quarrelling > give provocation to trail one's coat1877 to look for (or seek) trouble1901 1864 Realm 13 Apr. 2 Some trailer of coat-tails, looking out for a head to break.] 1877 C. M. Yonge Womankind (ed. 2) xxv. 216 Party spirit is equally ready to give offence and to watch for it. It will trail its coat like the Irishman in the fair. 1923 Daily Mail 7 Feb. 6 This risk [of war] is greatly increased by the presence of British troops at Constantinople and Chanak. Why should we thus be ‘trailing our coats’ before the Turks? 1950 ‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xxxii. 291 I wouldn't put it in a report!.. I don't trail my coat. 1974 Times 4 Nov. 15/1 Nobody trails his coat for another election... There is to be no Commons division on the crisis in agriculture. 1980 J. Ditton Copley's Hunch i. ii. 35 I was trailing my coat... Trying to get the Luftwaffe to come up and fight. extracted from trailv.¹ < as lemmas
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