| 单词 | toyshop shelf |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoyshop shelf (In sense 1). General use as a modifier, as in toyshop shelf, toyshop window, etc.; also with agent nouns, forming compounds in which toyshop expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in toyshop owner. ΚΠ 1730 J. Ralph Fashionable Lady ii. xx. 59 Must these poor Rogues wait here all the while like a Gang of gaping School-Boys at a Toy-Shop Window? 1813 Theatr. Inquisitor 2 124 Her arms..drop inanimate like the..limbs of a toy-shop harlequin. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. vi. 154 Esmond found the ante-chamber crowded with milliners and toy-shop women..mercers' men with hangings, and velvets, and brocades. 1922 World Fiction Aug. 15/1 I longed for a doll—just one doll—the cheapest and least painted on the toy-shop shelf. 2018 Wagga (Wagga Wagga, Austral.) Daily Advertiser (Nexis) 25 May 8 Liz decided to..make the switch from preschool teacher to toy shop owner. < as lemmas |
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