| 单词 | to up sticks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto up sticks Phrases P1. In similative and comparative phrases, as the type of something thin, dry, hard, stiff, etc. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. iii. 1114 Here bodyes beþ colde and druye, as it were a stykke. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 144 (MED) Myn handys power is now all lorn, Styff as a stykke. 1571 J. Bridges Serm. Paules Crosse 125 A wafer [sc. the host]..as thinne as a paper,..as muche taste as a stycke, and as deade as a dore nayle. 1656 A. L. Fox tr. F. Würtz Exper. Treat. Surg. xiii. 254 The lips of the wound grow as hard as a stick. 1760 T. Gray Let. 29 June in Corr. (1971) II. 685 It was dry as a stick..and cold as a cucumber. 1770 J. Hall-Stevenson Fables for Grown Gentlemen for 1770 xx. 43 A hungry crow, lean as a stick. 1893 V. Bailey Prairie Ground Squirrels 32 Standing upright on its hind feet, straight and motionless as a stick. 1945 Commentary Dec. 46/1 A wife thin as a stick. 1983 W. Percy Lost in Cosmos 147 There sits the poor writer, rigid as a stick, pencil poised. 2003 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 9 Mar. 11 Her father..seems to have been drier than a stick and rather less pliable. P2. a. every (also †ilk, †ilka) stick: all the parts or materials of a thing, esp. a building or other structure; the whole of a thing. Also used adverbially: totally, completely. Often in the context of total destruction or ruin. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] high and low1397 every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400 root and rind?a1400 hair and hide?c1450 stout and routc1450 bane and routc1480 overthwart and endlonga1500 (in) hide and hairc1575 right out1578 horse and footc1600 flesh and fella1616 root and branch1640 stab and stow1680 stoop and roop1728 stick, stock, stone dead1796 rump and stump1824 stump and rump1825 rump and rig1843 good and1885 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. 2749 Carro, Lodelow toun,..Dunford, & Maltoun, Steuen wan þam ilk a stik. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1311 Þus..þe strenth [of Alexander's towers] ilk stike was in a stounde wasted. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxx. 743 They fell a flinging of fire upon the lodgings and sheds.., they were all at once on a light fire, and burnt every stick downe to the ground. 1628 W. Bedell Let. 5 Mar. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cxxxv. 403 In the mean while the Scholars..have pulled it [sc. the Inclosure at the Colledg-Gate] all down, every Stick, and brought it away into the Colledg to several Chambers. 1660 Z. Crofton Αναληψις Ανεληϕθη 33 I knew a man passing through an old rotten house, got a knock on his pate, and in his passion, sware he would pull it down and burn it every stick. 1738 Common Sense (1739) 17 June II. 118 I saw their Nest intirely demolished, and every Stick of it removed. 1751 J. Arbuthnot Hist. John Bull iii. xv, in Misc. Wks. II. 78 He..fell unawares on Philip's Boats..and sunk, burnt, and took every Stick of them. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. x. 522 Two villages, Fuhrenheim and Sandhausen, it swam away, every stick of them. 1993 V. Milan From Depths xviii. 199 I will blast every stick of your military equipment that's bigger than a rifle into slag. b. (every) stick and stone (also stower, stock, etc.) and variants: all the parts or materials of a thing, esp. a building or other structure; the whole of a thing. Also used adverbially: totally, completely. Cf. stower n.1 1, stock and block at stock n.1 1e. ΚΠ ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7177 (MED) Þe place was brynt, styk and stoure, Abbay and house. ?1459 Will of John Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 90 That thanne the said John Paston shulde doo poule doun the said mansion and euery stone and stikke therof. a1500 (c1437) Brut (Lamb.) 583 Þe Calisers..bare lxiii clene away, Euery stikke & stone, & lafte not ther one log. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 232v [He] to declare hym selfe [free from the assumption of kingly power], was fain to pul down his hous sticke and stone euen to ye plain grounde. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ix. ix. 161 Godfrey meane-while to ruin sticke and stone Of this faire towne, with battrie sore, assaies. 1662 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 612 We putt it into the fyre, That it mey be brunt both stik and stowre. a1771 J. Gill Coll. Serm. & Tracts (1778) I. xxx. 501 Sin is like the spreading leprosy in the house, which could not be cleansed of it, without pulling down every stick and stone. 1786 R. Burns Poems 216 Folk thought them ruin'd stick-an-stowe. 1829 Melodist 4 375 Old streets now it hard to trace is..; Swallow-street, so long well known, sir, Is swallow'd up both stick and stone. 1880 S. Baring-Gould Mehalah I. xii. 240 Cousin Charles is not the man to see his relatives sold up stick and stock. 1914 D. H. Lawrence Let. 22 Aug. (2002) II. 209 Germany is a queer country... I alternate between hating it thoroughly, stick stock and stone, and yearning over it fit to break my heart. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 292/2 A went in an' it'd all went! Ivvry bloody stick an' stow on it! 2015 A. B. Harp Sooner Story 20/2 Every faculty member, every student, every custom, every stick and stone on the campus, was there because of him. c. not a stick and variants: absolutely nothing; no piece or part of a thing, esp. a building or other structure. Often in the context of total destruction or eradication. ΚΠ ?1571 in A. Jenkinson et al. Early Voy. Russia & Persia (1886) II. 339 One of ye dukes howses..was consomed with fyer & not one stick left. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 13 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Of all Townes, Castles, Forts, Bridges, and Habitations, they left not any sticke standing. 1625 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 80 The Sultan suffaringe not a sticke to bee puld downe out of aney house. 1680 Acct. Prodigious Storms London-Derry (single sheet) (verso) The River..brought with it an infinite deal of Timber, Sticks, Straw and Rubbish, which gathering together at the side of our New Bridge, and having no vent it overthrew, and there is not one stick left, and so the prettiest Bridge in Ireland is lost. 1700 G. Booth tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Libr. xiv. vii. 384 Imilco demolish'd Messina, and commanded his Soldiers to pull down the Houses to the ground, so as not one stick should be left standing. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vi. 151 Planted with fine trees till you come to Tirlemont, where the French have not left a stick. 1817 G. Soane Falls of Clyde i. i. 6 Ken. Let all these hovels—all—be instantly demolished!.. Mal. Leave not a stick standing—leave not an ember burning! 1893 A. Conan Doyle Refugees xxxv. 322 ‘And the fort burned?’ ‘Not a stick was left standing.’ 1915 J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers iii. 40 I began to fancy that Muckle John's true place was with the Mussulmans, for he left not a stick of Christianity behind him. 1965 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. 10/4 Not a stick remains of the stately Victorian homes that dotted the island before the war. 2012 J. Lockett Discov. of Weather vi. 176 Fish houses were carried away, and not a stick was left standing where the wharves had been. P3. it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog and variants: if a person wishes to take offence, pick a fight, etc., it is easy to find an excuse or reason to do so. Hence allusively a stick to beat a dog: an expedient reason to do something. ΚΠ 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. xv. 1294 Loe, how easie a matter it is to finde a sticke to beate a dogge; to picke a quarrell at euery small offence, when one is disposed to cauill. 1683 Whip for Devil 2 Now though it be a thing well known that the Devil is generally hated, and as true that it is an easie thing to find a stick to beat a dog, yet is it not so easie to find a Rod to whip the Devil. 1782 F. Hopkinson in Pennsylvania Gaz. 21 Aug. 2/1 A proverb..naturally occurs on this occasion: It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog. ?1846 J. R. Planché Queen Mary's Bower i. i. 7 Orm. Why, how have you offended him?.. Hec. When you want to beat a dog it's easy to find a stick. 1884 Nineteenth Cent. Aug. 197 Any stick is good enough to beat a dog with. Any excuse seems sufficient to satisfy the Peers in destroying a Reform Bill. 1933 Harper's Mag. Sept. 482/1 When the Armory Show of 1913 was at the Chicago Art Institute a campaign was waged against it on the grounds of indecency... (Any stick will do to beat a dog with). 1987 Washington Times 30 Apr. 11 a/2 When you want to beat a dog, any stick will do. 2014 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Aug. 24 There has been great sport to be had poking fun at the business secretary... But there is a danger of picking up any stick to beat a dog. P4. a stick to beat (a person, etc.) with and variants: a fact, situation, argument, etc., which can be used to criticize or damage (a person, group, or cause). ΚΠ 1653 D. Osborne Lett. to Sir W. Temple (2002) 111 What reason have I to furnish you with a stick to beat my selfe withall. a1740 A. Pope Minor Poems (1954) 196 Parnell..Will venture it now—you have no Stick to beat him. 1882 Sat. Rev. 2 Sept. 298/2 They want a stick with which to beat the Church. 1928 D. H. Lawrence in Evening News 8 May 8/4 The last stupid stick with which the old can beat the young. 1962 Listener 5 Apr. 597/2 Israel has sometimes been just another stick with which the Arabs beat each other. 2016 Cape Argus (Nexis) 16 Jan. 20 Some politicians are already seeking to use these unlooked for privileges as a stick with which to beat people. P5. to play a good stick: to play a violin, fiddle, etc., well (cf. sense 11e). Later, with various other verbs, as to shoot a good stick: to do well or be skilled at an activity, esp. one which involves the use of a stick (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > there is much success [phrase] > play one's part well or badly to play a good stick1741 to be on one's game1920 1741 R. Goadby tr. M. de Cervantes Two Humorous Novels ii. 168 You are admiring the Broom, she plays a good Stick, Musick sooner made, and with less Trouble, nor cheaper was never invented in the World. ?1790 Road to Hymen 24 I plays a good stick on the fiddle, and can dance buttered pease, Margery Cree, and old Roger of Coverley featly. 1824 W. Irving Bold Dragoon in Tales of Traveller I. i. 52 He could swear a good stick himself. 1843 F. Bellew Mem. Griffin II. iv. 79 The captain..fired a capital good stick nevertheless, and knocked the black partridges about, right and left, in great style. 1892 E. Waugh Tufts of Heather 1st Ser. I. 188 The hungry travellers sat down. For about half-an-hour every man of the three ‘played a good stick’, as the old saying goes. 1974 ‘D. Gober’ Black Cop (1993) 149 ‘Man, you shoot a good stick.’.. Rhodes knew that he couldn't spend all his time shooting pool and drinking brew. 2009 J. Amato Once Engineer iv. 47 My old man can shoot a good stick, especially eight ball. P6. a. (a) to get (also have) the wrong end of the stick and variants. (i) To do poorly or end up at a disadvantage in a bargain, deal, or contest. Cf. to get the worse end of the staff at staff n.1 Phrases 7. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > be disadvantageous [verb (intransitive)] > have disadvantage to have (also get) the worsec1275 to have (also get, etc.) the better (or worse) end of the staff1542 disprofit1561 the worst end of the bargain (also stick, staff, etc.)1564 to have the wrong end of the stick?1793 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > mistake [phrase] to miss the cushiona1529 to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546 to pray without one's beads1641 to have the wrong end of the stick?1793 to bark up the wrong tree1832 the boot (is) on the wrong leg or foot1834 to have another think coming1896 you have another guess coming1935 to be off the beam1941 blow1943 ?1793 ‘Yorick’ Dr—yt—n Rev. 67 This Yorick is surely in League with Old Nick, We Saints have sure got the Wrong End of the Stick. 1825 Portfolio 8 Jan. 277/1 Mr. W. the wrong end of the stick in the affair. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 249 If you happen to have the arrangement of a bargain..with the rural Australian, you will rarely find that the apparently impassive countryman has ‘got the wrong end of the stick’. 1919 Times of India 4 Sept. 6/3 It reminds one of the appeal made to the Government last year by some of the magnates who had found themselves at the wrong end of the stick in their huge cotton speculations. 1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 12 May 14 Why do motorcyclists always seem to end up on the wrong end of the stick; is it collective punishment for the misdeeds of the few? (ii) British. To misunderstand a situation, fact, etc.; to be incorrect. ΚΠ 1820 Morning Post 29 July You are constantly getting hold of the wrong end of the stick. 1893 Brit. Chess Mag. June 253 A more fatuous gripping of the wrong end of the stick is not easily imagined. 1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. vii. 283 Listen, Hilda. You've got hold of the wrong end of the stick about this business. 1951 N. Mitford Blessing i. xiii. 135 I'm afraid, old man, you've got the wrong end of the stick there. 1968 Listener 12 Sept. 340/2 I am afraid my old friend and colleague has got hold of the wrong end of a very large number of sticks. 1994 Independent on Sunday 18 Sept. 23/2 Kay Barwick..believes many would-be asserters have got the wrong end of the stick. ‘It's a common myth that assertiveness equals aggression,’ she insists. 2002 S. Brett Torso in Town (2003) xxxiii. 268 She'd got the wrong end of the stick about Carole and Jude's relationship. (b) to get (also have) the mucky (also rough, bad, crappy, etc.) end of the stick: to end up in a comparatively unfavourable or unpleasant position. Cf. the dirty end (of the stick) at dirty adj. 1e, the thick end of the stick at thick adj. 3b. ΚΠ 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 49 Which of us had hold of the crappy..end of the stick? 1882 Vanity Fair 3 June 309/2 We have known a great many promoters who got nothing for themselves except, perhaps, the rough end of the stick. 1919 Manch. Guardian 12 July 10/1 She could not think of divorce, because she would have to bring the action against her husband, and whenever she did anything of that sort she always got the bad end of the stick. 1932 W. S. Maugham Narrow Corner vi. 25 Dr. Saunders was inclined to believe that..Fred Blake would get the thin end of the stick. 1959 ‘M. Cronin’ Dead & Done With iv. 61 I've had the rough end of the stick ever since I got here. 1977 P. Scott Staying On (1978) i. 14 Always..I have the mucky end of the stick. But then I am only part of the fixtures and fittings. 2014 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 13 June 14 It's a huge victory for the little man who all too often gets the mucky end of the stick but has no idea what to do about it. (c) Originally North American. to get (also have) the short end of the stick and variants: to end up at a disadvantage or in a comparatively unfavourable position in a situation, outcome, arrangement, etc.; cf. short end n. (d) at short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6a, and also to get the wrong end of the stick at Phrases 6a(a), to get the mucky end of the stick at Phrases 6a(b). [Apparently a conflation of to get (also have) the wrong end of the stick at Phrases 6a(a) with to draw the short straw (see straw n.1 5h).] ΚΠ 1885 Boston Daily Globe 7 Jan. (Suppl.) The old system of life insurance..was a game in which the insured bought the short end of the stick. 1921 Washington Post 28 Dec. 2 Taxpayers in the United States are getting decidedly the short end of the stick on payments for the expenses of the armies. 1973 R. V. Fitzgerald Conjoint Marital Therapy iv. 69 It seemed to her as though girls were always getting the short end of the stick. 2006 D. Trussoni Falling through Earth (2007) iv. 60 At Roscoe's, if you hadn't had the short end of the stick most of your life..there was surely something wrong with you. b. to get (also have) the right end of the stick and variants: to correctly understand, interpret, or respond to a fact, situation, etc.; to be correct. Also occasionally: to come off best in a bargain or contest. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)] risec1175 to have the higher handa1225 to have the besta1393 bettera1400 vaila1400 to win or achieve a checka1400 surmount1400 prevaila1425 to have (also get) the better handa1470 to go away with it1489 to have the besta1500 to have (also get, etc.) the better (or worse) end of the staff1542 to have ita1616 to have (also get) the laugh on one's side1672 top1718 beat1744 to get (also have) the right end of the stick1817 to have the best of1846 to go one better1856 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > speak truly [verb (intransitive)] > be right to have reasonc1475 to get (also have) the right end of the stick1817 hit1874 to be on the beam1941 1817 Star 22 Aug. He had not, to use an old observation, taken the right end of the stick. He had attempted reformation at the top, instead of beginning at the bottom. 1838 J. B. Fraser Winter's Journey I. ii. 52 There was no help for it: I scolded, protested, and looked big; but my friend had the right end of the stick, and he kept it. 1897 W. Beatty Secretar xiii. 100 I was more convinced than ever..that I had the right end of the stick. 1934 C. Day Lewis Hope for Poetry vii. 42 Although Lewis's analysis convinces us..as being correct in detail, we are compelled to feel that Lawrence rather than Lewis had got hold of the right end of the stick. 1977 Guardian 29 Mar. 8/1 The French critics have got the right end of the stick: Providence is indeed a masterpiece. 2010 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 12 July 13 The subject of voting seems to make it particularly difficult for politicians to say what they really mean, in case the electorate might get the right end of the stick. P7. a. stick, stock, stone dead: completely or unquestionably dead. Cf. stone-dead adj. at stone n. Compounds 3a(a). Now somewhat rare.In later use frequently in nursery rhymes and in retellings of the fairy tale ‘The Rose Tree’ (see quot. 1865). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] high and low1397 every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400 root and rind?a1400 hair and hide?c1450 stout and routc1450 bane and routc1480 overthwart and endlonga1500 (in) hide and hairc1575 right out1578 horse and footc1600 flesh and fella1616 root and branch1640 stab and stow1680 stoop and roop1728 stick, stock, stone dead1796 rump and stump1824 stump and rump1825 rump and rig1843 good and1885 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 1796 Sun 18 Mar. Then droop'd his head, stick, stock, stone dead. 1810 Gammer Gurton's Garland iii. 31 One-ery, two-ery, Ziccary zan; Hollow bone, crack a bone, Ninery ten:..Stick, stock, stone dead, Blind man can't see, Every knave, will have a slave, You or I must be He. 1865 Notes & Queries 29 July 83/2 My wicked mother slew me, My dear father ate me, My little brother whom I love Sits below, and I sing up above. Stick, stock, stone dead. 1948 West Virginia Folklore 7 13 Counting-out Rhymes... Stick, stock, stone dead. Sit him up, sit him down, Sit him in the old man's crown. 1988 J. K. Keefer Constellations 41 The dreams I once had are stick, stock, stone dead. b. stick, stark, staring mad and variants: completely or unquestionably insane. Cf. stark staring mad at stark adv. 2b. Now rare. ΚΠ 1833 T. Hood Lost Heir in Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. Suppl. No. 637. 390/1 I shall go stick stark staring wild! 1880 T. Tharp Sword of Damocles I. xx. 262 ‘Holy pokers! just look!’ ejaculated Gore, as they rose to leave; ‘why, the giant's gone stick, stark, staring mad!’ 1908 Amer. Mag. Dec. 186/1 Now he had gone stick, stark, staring, raving, biting mad. 1933 S. Clark Germany on Fifty Dollars xxi. 227 Ludwig's castles are ‘stick stark staring mad’—and they are beautiful. P8. the sticks of fate: a set of marked sticks used in various Chinese methods of divination; one of these methods of divination. Cf. I Ching n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by symbols, letters, figures, etc. > [noun] > Chinese manual for > apparatus used in the sticks of fate1804 1804 J. Barrow Trav. China ix. 499 An elderly lady was very busily employed in throwing the sticks of fate, in order to obtain a lucky number. 1860 R. Cobbold Pict. Chinese ii. 14 You seldom enter a Buddhist temple without seeing some anxious face watching till one of the ‘sticks of fate’ falls out of the shaken box. 1880 Boys of Eng. 20 Jan. 195/3 Others were busy in throwing ‘sticks of fate’, which consist of two hollow pieces of bamboo, and must be thrown three times (the true mystic number), before an answer can be obtained. 1903 A. B. Tulloch Recoll. Forty Years' Service v. 72 There are vases on the Buddhist altar which do not yet appear even in our most advanced ritualistic buildings—viz., those containing the sticks of fate. 1983 Burlington Mag. 125 256/2 (caption) Devotee consulting the Sticks of Fate. 2001 S. Karcher Kuan Yin Oracle (2003) 67 The Sticks of Fate is the traditional way. This method involves a tall narrow cup..filled with a hundred thin bamboo slats. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > equal, match, or rival matchc1400 to hold, rarely have, tack with (to)1412 equalize15.. mate1509 touch1530 to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack)1555 equal1590 egall1591 countermatch1600 to weigh with (also even with)1600 emulate1602 side1605 compeer1608 pair1619 mount1628 amate1642 to hold weight witha1643 to be (also prove oneself) a match for1712 peel1726 to hold the sticks toa1817 to bear or stand comparison with1845 see1861 tie1888 society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete with [verb (transitive)] > compete on equal terms with to hold the sticks toa1817 a1817 W. Muir Poems (1818) 58 Nae kitten, fam'd for fun an' tricks, Can to the weasel ha'd the sticks. 1859 C. Reade Love me Little I. viii. 232 If I began by despising my business..how should I ever hold sticks with my able competitors? ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > career > have career [verb (intransitive)] > stand high in profession to be high up the stick1819 1819 C. Morgan Let. in Lady Morgan Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 295 All my acquaintance among the doctors are so high up the stick, they have no time to spare to answer inquiries. P11. to beat (also knock) all to sticks: to surpass completely; to defeat decisively. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass or beat whip1571 overmaster1627 to give (one) fifteen and a bisque1664 to beat (all) to nothing1768 beatc1800 bang1808 to beat (also knock) all to sticks1820 floga1841 to beat (a person, a thing) into fits1841 to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849 to knock (the) spots off1850 lick1890 biff1895 to give a stone and a beating to1906 to knock into a cocked hat1965 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 85 Which in the west country beats our stot-beef here all to sticks. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 16 When I came to know his game, I used to knock him all to sticks; or, at least, win six games to his four. 1889 Sc. Notes & Queries 3 75/2 The game is all very well as a craze—indeed, it beats the wheelbarrow craze all to sticks. 1923 Humorist 29 Sept. 226/2 ‘Beats motoring all to sticks,’ I told him, for nobody can afford more thoroughly to despise motors than the man who can't buy one. 1945 in J. Fletcher-Cooke Emperor's Guest (2013) App. iii. 314 We somehow feel a sort of pleasure at hearing Premier Churchill and his party were beaten all to sticks by the Labour Party headed by Attlee at the recent general election. P12. to go (all) to sticks and variants: to be ruined; to be rendered worthless or penniless through a decline in quality, value, wealth, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. ix. 95 She married a Highland drover, or tacksman, I can't tell which, and they went all to sticks and staves. 1894 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 15 Feb. 132/3 While this cheap herd may have started right, with a few injudicious crosses and bad care,..it ‘may have gone all to sticks’. 1920 L. G. Long Farmer Hiram on World's War xxxv. 246 The Sultan's Grand Army had gone all to sticks. 1933 Creston (Iowa) News Advertiser 3 Apr. 1/1 Thousands of institutions..have gone to sticks because they were trying to make a dividend on the amount of money paid for their stocks. 1947 Creston (Iowa) News Advertiser 14 Oct. 2/3 Production declined; business went to sticks. P13. to up sticks (also to up stick). a. Nautical. To set up a boat's mast in preparation to sail or depart a place. Cf. sense 8. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1832 United Service Jrnl. Mar. 385 When I up stick for the Strates after my last, I haddent no oppertoonity to lett you know as I was off. 1837 M. H. Barker in Bentley's Misc. Mar. 278 There was a nice little breeze, and so we ups stick..to run down and overhaul the strangers. 1888 W. C. Russell Death Ship I. 286 To have nothing to do with her or me, but to bear a hand and ‘up sticks’. 1920 C. A. W. Monckton Some Exper. New Guinea Resident Magistr. xxii. 262 Up sticks and away for Port Moresby and Sir Francis Winter. 1930 Motorboating Nov. 25/2 After discharging our case oil into dhows..we had all kinds of weather going around to Madras for orders..and up-stick for Calcutta. 1945 J. C. Colcord Sea Lang. comes Ashore 179 ‘Up stick and cut it’, refers to stepping the mast of a small boat, and getting out of there pronto! b. To leave a place and move elsewhere; to end one's ties to a place in preparation for moving a significant distance. Cf. to pull up stakes at stake n.1 1e. ΚΠ 1839 Knickerbocker 14 141 Why, in the name of common sense, do you not up sticks and off? 1877 Harper's Mag. Jan. 213/2 If any man tries hard words with me, I knocks him down, up sticks, and makes tracks. 1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior ii. 168 0700 we up sticks here and get well under cover a mile into the jungle. 1972 G. Green Great Moments in Sport: Soccer i. 28 Neil Franklin..upped sticks..and departed to Bogotá. 2015 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) May 46/1 Not long after Zoë left, two others from our school ‘gang’ upped sticks—Megan to Nairobi and Christine for a new life in Spain. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shoot [verb (intransitive)] > manner or type of grousec1798 to set up1824 to shoot for the stick1834 to go to rode1838 to fire into the brown (of them)1845 set1859 hold ahead1881 hold on1881 rough-shoot1937 1834 New Monthly Mag. July 288 In a battue..the shooting is for the stick, as it is technically phrased—not for the pleasure, but the pride of the murderer of hecatombs. P15. sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me and variants: used, esp. by children, to express or encourage an attitude of indifference to taunts, insults, or other verbal abuse. In later use also shortened to sticks and stones and esp. used attributively to designate an attitude, behaviour, or action characterized by indifference to taunts, insults, or other verbal abuse. ΚΠ 1862 Christian Recorder 22 Mar. Remember the old adage, ‘Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me’. True courage consists in doing what is right, despite the jeers and sneers of our companions. 1894 G. F. Northall Folk-phrases 23 Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me! Said by one youngster to another calling names. 1946 Ladies' Home Jrnl. May 153 ‘We'll get you in the yard tomorrow and bite it out of you.’ ‘Sticks and stones,’ he said, with a yawn. 1952 Dept. State Bull. 19 May 781/1 To back out, taking the ‘sticks and stones’ attitude, would doom freedom everywhere to destruction. 1970 Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 2/1 A don't care sticks and stones defiance in his eyes. 1995 Harper's Mag. Apr. 49/2 Sticks and stones, my friend. That kind of confrontational attitude does nothing but make me feel a lack of respect for you. 2003 M. Haddon Curious Incident of Dog in Night-time 56 I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me. P16. stick and groove: a method of producing fire using friction generated by rubbing a stick vigorously along a groove in a piece of wood; the pieces of wood used in this process. Cf. fire-plough n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a. ΚΠ 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ix. 236 One of the simplest machines for producing fire is that which may be called the ‘stick-and-groove’. A blunt-pointed stick is run along a groove of its own making in a piece of wood lying on the ground. 1928 Man 28 13 The local method of fire-making is by the stick and groove. 1931 Oceania 2 143 A hole is dug and in it a fire is kindled by the stick and groove method. 1971 R. A. Tsanoff Civilization & Progress Epil. 359 The stick-and-groove or fire-saw or fire-plow, where a strip of bamboo or other readily inflammable wood is rubbed briskly across another. 2005 A. Delbanco Melville (2006) iii. 82 ‘Civilized’ man channels his libidinal energy..into tools far advanced over the native's stick and groove. P17. Horse Racing. over the sticks: in a race or races involving jumps. Opposed to on the flat (see flat n.3 1c). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [adverb] > in steeplechasing or hurdling over the sticks1869 1869 Bell's Life in London 6 Feb. 5/2 The Hurdle Race followed, and all on the card but Charlie went out to try their luck over the sticks. 1898 T. Haydon Sporting Reminisc. 67 The quality of the competitors, both in flat races and ‘over the sticks’ was of the highest class. a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1979) 102 Tom had progressed to riding professionally over the sticks. 1993 Tatler July 123/2 She keeps a John Fowler-trained hurdler, Opera Hat , which won a £10,000 race this season and is her first venture over the sticks. 2002 B. Hoey Her Majesty xv. 251 It is often said that the Queen races only on the Flat to avoid being in competition with her mother, whose horses race mainly ‘over the sticks’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > treat discourteously [verb (transitive)] > treat with lack of affability to show the cold shoulder1816 cold-shoulder1843 to keep (a person) at (the) stick's end1884 1884 Mag. of Art 7 227/2 They [sc. the shopmen] kept us at the stick's end, frowned us down, snatched each play out of our hand ere we were trusted with another. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped viii. 70 The captain, though he kept me at the stick's end the most part of the time, would sometimes unbuckle a bit, and tell me of the fine countries he had visited. 1903 S. R. Crockett Adventurer in Spain v. 131 His mother spoils him, and yet he will not go near her... I keep young Don Rascal at the stick's end, and, lo! I cannot be rid of him from morning to night! 1923 Young India 26 July 251/1 Is the Prince a man of advanced views? Does he... keep British officials and exploiters at stick's end? P19. stick and rag: plasterwork consisting of plaster on a canvas and wood backing. Frequently attributive. Cf. stud and mud at stud n.1 1b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > bricklaying and plastering > plastering > plaster on specific surface stick and rag1894 1894 C. F. Mitchell & G. A. Mitchell Building Constr. i. 31 Fibrous Plaster, or stick and rag work as it is termed, is a preparation of plaster of Paris on canvas, or canvas and wood backing. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 786/1 Fibrous plaster is given by plasterers the suggestive name ‘stick and rag’,..for it is composed of plaster laid upon a backing of canvas stretched on wood. 1986 in M. F. Wakelin Southwest of Eng. 113 Do all the stick-and-rag, all the fancy mouldings..and things like that style. 2013 K. Sears Boy from Treacle Bumstead xviii. 265 Mr Cheater showed me how to do stick and rag moulding on a bench.., and I also learned to make up stick and rag coving for ceilings. P20. slang (originally U.S.). the sticks: a remote, thinly populated, or rural area; the backwoods; the country. Chiefly in prepositional phrases, esp. from the sticks, (out) in the sticks.Sometimes with connotations of provincialism or lack of sophistication. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > remote or outlying area nookc1480 out-country1639 outland1645 remoteness1694 backwoods1709 back county1775 remote1838 Mountains of the Moon1852 nowhere1871 the sticks1899 way back1901 downstate1905 back o' Bourke1918 far-back1926 woop woop1926 boohai?1946 bundu1946 Dogpatch1946 outback1954 toolies1961 upstate1965 Watford1973 1899 Williamson County Sun (Georgetown, Texas) 17 Aug. Miss Zula Hall, after a vacation of several weeks rusticating in the ‘sticks’, has resumed her position. 1914 R. Lardner in Sat. Evening Post 7 Mar. 8/1 I will have to slip you back to the sticks [i.e. the minor baseball leagues]. 1937 F. Loesser Meany, Miny, Moe in R. Kimball & S. Nelson Compl. Lyrics F. Loesser (2003) 21/1 Just three monkeys from the sticks, Nothing more than jungle hicks. 1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues ix. 126 I continued..playing for dances, touring on the road and through the sticks and giving concerts. 1958 C. Koch Boys in Island 101 What can y' expect, way out here in the sticks? You would pick on a dame from back of beyond. 1977 Daily Express 29 Jan. 39/2 Most people regard us as a bunch of farmers from out in the sticks. 1990 P. Wilson Skvorecky's Miracle Game iii. v. 70 You think I'm stupid because I'm from the sticks? 2008 Independent 23 July (Property section) 5 Even in the sticks, noisy neighbours can spoil the serenity of your pastoral paradise. P21. slang (British and Australian). up the stick: pregnant. Cf. to put (also stick) up the pole at pole n.1 Phrases 1f. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective] greatc1175 with childc1175 with childc1300 baggeda1400 bounda1400 pregnant?a1425 quicka1450 greaterc1480 heavyc1480 teeming1530 great-bellied1533 big1535 boundenc1540 impregnate1540 great-wombeda1550 young with child1566 gravid1598 pregnate1598 pagled1599 enceinte1602 child-great1605 conceived1637 big-bellieda1646 brooding1667 in the (also a) family way1688 in the (also that) way1741 undelivered1799 ensient1818 enwombeda1822 in a delicate condition1827 gestant1851 in pod1890 up the (also a) pole1918 in a particular condition1922 preg?1927 in the spud line1937 up the spout1937 preggy1938 up the stick1941 preggers1942 in pig1945 primigravid1949 preggo1951 in a certain condition1958 gestating1961 up the creek1961 in the (pudding) cluba1966 gravidated- 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 71 Stick, up the: (of a girl or woman) to be pregnant. 1958 A. Sillitoe Sat. Night & Sunday Morning v. 69 Brenda on the tub, up the stick, with a bun in the oven. 1968 R. Lait Chance to Kill i. 10 Mary up the stick; funny how everyone counts the months. 1976 J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service ix. 160 Do you know what it's like, Cyril, to be a decent and penniless young man who isn't sure he hasn't got his girl up the stick? 2008 M. Billingham In Dark (2009) xxv. 269 But you didn't need to be Einstein to work out it would have been around the time when she got herself up the stick. P22. North American colloquial. to drive stick: to drive a car with a manual, as opposed to automatic, transmission (see sense 11l). [Probably originally short for to drive stick shift, to drive a stick shift; compare quot. 1966 and stick shift n. (a) at Compounds 2.] ΚΠ 1966 Yachting May 53 ‘Can I help it if I don't know how to drive stick shift?’] 1972 Oak Leaves (Oak Park, Illinois) 23 Feb. 14 c/5 (advt.) Volkswagen 1969 Bug, Like new... Wife won't drive stick. 1976 Christopher Street 1 28 I couldn't drive stick. Even though I was gonna take this car and go to Portugal. I couldn't drive stick. 1989 Frederick (Maryland) Post 14 Apr. e9/4 Mustang 78, 4 spd... Owner can't drive stick..Must sell. 2016 A. Z. Khan Lang. of Secrets 281 Rachel could drive stick like a race car driver. P23. colloquial. to pee (also wee, piss) on a stick: to take a pregnancy test of a type involving urinating on a disposable plastic stick which immediately indicates the result; (also more generally) to take any of various other diagnostic tests of this type. ΚΠ 1995 Madison (Wisconsin) State Jrnl. 12 Feb. 3 b/3 Tonight's plot involves birth control and contains such lines as ‘I'm peeing on a stick’. 1996 H. Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) 118 It was his responsibility too and he wasn't having to spend £8.95 and hide in the toilets trying to wee on a stick. 1996 B. Greene & O. Winfrey Make Connection 4 Eat all the fat..you want, just don't eat any carbohydrates, and be sure to pee on a stick to make sure your body isn't completely breaking down. 2001 L. A. Blum You're not from around here, are You? 125 All I had to do was piss on a stick. Before I knew what I was doing, I had one in my hand. ‘I'm getting it’. 2012 www.mumsnet.com 3 July (forum post, accessed 12 June 2017) I knew before I peed on a stick that I was pregnant. P24. to have a stick up one's ass: see ass n.2 Phrases 17; to cut one's stick: see cut v. 44; more than you can shake a stick at: see shake v. 5b; tarred with the same stick: see tar v.1 c. < as lemmas |
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