英语词汇“top and tail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. top and tail.

(a)

†(i) As a whole; completely, absolutely; (also) from beginning to end; in its entirety. Obsolete.In quot. c1330: bodily.

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c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 8126 (MED) Wawain..mani þousand ouerþrewe..Into þe water top and tail, Þat þai adreint.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 5416 Þarfor shul þey..Go to helle, boþe top and tayle.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 880 Toppe and taylle and euerydel..euery word that spoken ys.

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. cvi^v It is in the whole, toppe and tayle, length and bredth, begynnynge and endynge.

1838 Metrop. Mag. Feb. 194 It all looked as if it was a show-boat, or a nobleman's yacht, top and tail, head and starn, rig and hull, than an old dog of a barkie.

(ii) the top and tail of something: all that can or need be said about something; the long and short of something.Cf. the top and bottom of something at Phrases 4a(d).

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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > consequently or as a result [phrase] > sum total or upshot

the shorta1500

summa summarum1567

the sum of sums1592

the long and the short of1622

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxvi. 329 The top and tail o't is this.

1967 G. M. Williams Man who had Power over Women 46 ‘She wasn't your bloody type, that's the top and tail of it,’ Val said, sagely.

2003 Liverpool Daily Echo (Nexis) 12 June 2 He will be an MP. That's the top and tail of it.

†(b) Chiefly hyphenated, in top-and-tail (also top-on-tail, †tail and top): (with reference to falling or tumbling) so as turn completely over; head over heels. Obsolete (English regional (south-western) in later use).Cf. top over tail at Phrases 3b.

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1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos v. sig. N.j^v Headlong down in dust he ouerturnyd tayle and topp.

1879 W. Pengelly 3rd Rep. Comm. Devonshire Verbal Provincialisms in Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. Advancem. Sci., Lit. & Art 11 144 Top-and-Tail (= Head-over-heels, or more properly, Heels-over-head). In a field near Sidmouth, one child said to another, ‘Now then, I'm going to turn top-and-tail’ when it proceeded to turn a somersault on the grass.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Top-and-tail The pony put his foot in a rabbit's hole and proper turned top-on-tail.

(c) With reference to the orientation of two or more people lying beside one another: with each person's head next to the adjacent person's feet; = top to tail adv.

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1849 Q. Rev. Sept. 427 They were lying, what in country parlance is termed ‘top and tail’.

1994 M. Gee Crime Story (1996) iii. 45 The..bed with..two of them in it, top and tail, his brother's feet digging under his chin all night long.

2012 Daily Disp. (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 23 July We tossed and turned before deciding to sleep top and tail.

Phrases

P1. to top and tail.In inflected forms, usually with both top and tail inflected, but sometimes with only a single inflection at the end of the phrase; compare quot. 1883 with quot. 1824.

a. To remove the top and bottom of (a fruit or vegetable), esp. while preparing it for cooking or eating.Not in common use in North America.

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1708 H. Howard England's Newest Way Cookery (ed. 2) 89 Take French-beans..top and tail them.

1824 L.-M. Hawkins Mem. II. 52 A gentleman..was topping and tailing gooseberries for wine.

1883 N. Devon Jrnl. 4 Jan. 3/4 As soon as the turnip has done growing it should be lifted, top and tailed, and housed as carefully as may be.

1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 24 They must not be hard, nor yet too ripe. Top and tail them and cut in halves straight across.

2007 BBC Good Food: Vegetarian Summer 62/2 Top and tail the beans and boil in salted water for 6 mins.

b. colloquial (chiefly British and Irish English).

(a) To wash the face and bottom of (a baby or small child).

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1924 H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match ii. 22 She topped and tailed each small boy with the same rubber sponge.

1964 Guardian 24 June 6/2 Freda showed me how to top and tail (which is done on the lap because these babies do not get enough cuddling).

1983 Woman's Weekly 8 Jan. 53/3 There is no need to bath your new baby more than twice a week, ‘topping and tailing’ on the other days.

2015 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 Aug. We put them into two cots. We top and tail them. They're happy out.

(b) Used as a modifier, as top-and-tail, designating a wash of this kind.

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1931 P. W. Yeomans Happy Motherhood vii. 61 5.50 to 6.20 p.m.—Top-and-tail wash, and feed baby.

2018 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 19 Sept. 26 A ‘top and tail’ bath is another way to clean your baby.

P2. to top it all: used to introduce the culminating moment in a series of (typically unpleasant or unfortunate) events or experiences. Also to top it all off.

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1863 Fun 28 Nov. 102/1 Accusations of the gravest description are bandied about with the greatest nonchalance, and to top it all one of the largest speculators withdraws without paying up.

1960 C. Isherwood Diary 15 Nov. in Sixties (2010) II. 26 Then, to top it all, we had tickets for The Threepenny Opera, and it was ugly and crude and dirty beyond belief.

1981 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 1st Ser. Episode 7. 65 Life's been pretty gutty for Earl quite recently... It's been like that between him and his missus (Moves hands up and down in balancing gesture) then to top it all his old man collapses in the Nag's Head right across the table.

2006 H. O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals 22 Then, to top it all off, he set his bed on fire with a cigarette when he was fifteen.

2018 M. Doyle Fug & Thumps (e-book ed.) ii I'm soaked through. And to top it all, my rucksack, with all the food and stuff, is soaking too.

P3. Phrases with particular nouns as the object of the verb.

a. to top the bill: (of an act or performer) to have top billing or be the star attraction in a show, venue, etc.; to be the star of a show. Also figurative: to be the leading or most popular person or thing in a particular context. Cf. sense 9c.In quot. 1823 ‘to top the evening's bill’ (sense 9a(b)).

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performer > appear as performer [verb (intransitive)] > be star performer

star1815

co-star1896

to have (also get) one's name in lights1918

1823 London Mag. July 101/1 If the performer, whose name tops the bill for the night, do not promise some very rash folly in the course of the evening, he may as well keep his tickets to himself.]

1883 Era 22 Dec. 10/2 The Sisters Clarinder top the bill, and have been well received.

1910 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith in City 3 He is a man of hobbies... When I left the house this morning he was all for cricket... Cricket seems still to be topping the bill.

1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman ii. 73 It's a very long time since the name of Maisie Mountjoy Topped the bill in revue.

1998 Grocer 1 Aug. 10/1 British speciality foods will top the bill at [the International Food & Drink Event].

2022 Bradford Tel. & Argus (Nexis) 17 Mar. Topping the bill on the main stage is Leeds DJ Tom Zanetti.

b. to top the deck: (in card-sharping) to manipulate which card appears on the top of the pack.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [verb (intransitive)] > methods of cheating

swig1591

cog1592

slip1760

to top the deck1894

to deal seconds1951

1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ v. 83 [The cuff holdout] is a neat invention to top the deck.

1911 Washington Post 21 May (Miscellany section) 3/6 It is this move which gives the trick its name, topping the deck. As Light buys the first card, he naturally fills his straight.

2011 R. Williamson Frontier Gambling 223 The Ring Holdout, this simple device is a short watch-spring that is attached onto a finger ring. It enabled an unaccomplished sharper to steal a card off the top of the deck—called, ‘topping the deck’.

†c. Originally Nautical. to top the officer: to treat a person as one's inferior; to behave in a superior manner towards someone. Usually with over, introducing a prepositional phrase indicating the person treated in this way. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > pretend to superiority [verb (intransitive)]

to make it goodlyc1325

usurpc1400

to take state upon one1597

to come over ——1600

to gentilize it1607

to state it1625

to give oneself airs1701

to put on airs1715

to mount (also ride) the high horse1782

to put on (the) dog1865

to get (also have) notions1866

to put on side1870

to have a roll on1881

to put (or pile) on lugs1889

side1890

to put on the Ritz1921

1767 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 10 Sept. He also hopes the mates will not be allowed to top the officers over the mids so far as to wear rose buttons and lappels, which are a very handsome part of the Lieutenants uniform.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiv. 181 I've been hail-fellow well met with the ship's company so long, that I can't top the officer over them.

1873 Graphic 4 Jan. 5/2 As for his sister, she is a good sort of girl in the main, and; as it pleases her to ‘top the officer’ over her distinguished brother, why, he allows her the privilege.

†d. to top a saw: (U.S.) to fasten a strip along the top edge of a saw blade, either to stiffen it or to limit the depth of cut. Obsolete.

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1891 Cent. Dict. Top,..3. To place and fasten upon the back margin of (a saw-blade) a stiffening piece, or a gage for limiting the depth of a kerf.

单词	top and tail
释义	> as lemmas top and tail a. top and tail. (a) †(i) As a whole; completely, absolutely; (also) from beginning to end; in its entirety. Obsolete.In quot. c1330: bodily. ΚΠ c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 8126 (MED) Wawain..mani þousand ouerþrewe..Into þe water top and tail, Þat þai adreint. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 5416 Þarfor shul þey..Go to helle, boþe top and tayle. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 880 Toppe and taylle and euerydel..euery word that spoken ys. ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. cvi^v It is in the whole, toppe and tayle, length and bredth, begynnynge and endynge. 1838 Metrop. Mag. Feb. 194 It all looked as if it was a show-boat, or a nobleman's yacht, top and tail, head and starn, rig and hull, than an old dog of a barkie. (ii) the top and tail of something: all that can or need be said about something; the long and short of something.Cf. the top and bottom of something at Phrases 4a(d). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > consequently or as a result [phrase] > sum total or upshot the shorta1500 summa summarum1567 the sum of sums1592 the long and the short of1622 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxvi. 329 The top and tail o't is this. 1967 G. M. Williams Man who had Power over Women 46 ‘She wasn't your bloody type, that's the top and tail of it,’ Val said, sagely. 2003 Liverpool Daily Echo (Nexis) 12 June 2 He will be an MP. That's the top and tail of it. †(b) Chiefly hyphenated, in top-and-tail (also top-on-tail, †tail and top): (with reference to falling or tumbling) so as turn completely over; head over heels. Obsolete (English regional (south-western) in later use).Cf. top over tail at Phrases 3b. ΚΠ 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos v. sig. N.j^v Headlong down in dust he ouerturnyd tayle and topp. 1879 W. Pengelly 3rd Rep. Comm. Devonshire Verbal Provincialisms in Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. Advancem. Sci., Lit. & Art 11 144 Top-and-Tail (= Head-over-heels, or more properly, Heels-over-head). In a field near Sidmouth, one child said to another, ‘Now then, I'm going to turn top-and-tail’ when it proceeded to turn a somersault on the grass. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Top-and-tail The pony put his foot in a rabbit's hole and proper turned top-on-tail. (c) With reference to the orientation of two or more people lying beside one another: with each person's head next to the adjacent person's feet; = top to tail adv. ΚΠ 1849 Q. Rev. Sept. 427 They were lying, what in country parlance is termed ‘top and tail’. 1994 M. Gee Crime Story (1996) iii. 45 The..bed with..two of them in it, top and tail, his brother's feet digging under his chin all night long. 2012 Daily Disp. (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 23 July We tossed and turned before deciding to sleep top and tail. extracted from topn.¹adj. to top and tail Phrases P1. to top and tail.In inflected forms, usually with both top and tail inflected, but sometimes with only a single inflection at the end of the phrase; compare quot. 1883 with quot. 1824. a. To remove the top and bottom of (a fruit or vegetable), esp. while preparing it for cooking or eating.Not in common use in North America. ΚΠ 1708 H. Howard England's Newest Way Cookery (ed. 2) 89 Take French-beans..top and tail them. 1824 L.-M. Hawkins Mem. II. 52 A gentleman..was topping and tailing gooseberries for wine. 1883 N. Devon Jrnl. 4 Jan. 3/4 As soon as the turnip has done growing it should be lifted, top and tailed, and housed as carefully as may be. 1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 24 They must not be hard, nor yet too ripe. Top and tail them and cut in halves straight across. 2007 BBC Good Food: Vegetarian Summer 62/2 Top and tail the beans and boil in salted water for 6 mins. b. colloquial (chiefly British and Irish English). (a) To wash the face and bottom of (a baby or small child). ΚΠ 1924 H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match ii. 22 She topped and tailed each small boy with the same rubber sponge. 1964 Guardian 24 June 6/2 Freda showed me how to top and tail (which is done on the lap because these babies do not get enough cuddling). 1983 Woman's Weekly 8 Jan. 53/3 There is no need to bath your new baby more than twice a week, ‘topping and tailing’ on the other days. 2015 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 Aug. We put them into two cots. We top and tail them. They're happy out. (b) Used as a modifier, as top-and-tail, designating a wash of this kind. ΚΠ 1931 P. W. Yeomans Happy Motherhood vii. 61 5.50 to 6.20 p.m.—Top-and-tail wash, and feed baby. 2018 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 19 Sept. 26 A ‘top and tail’ bath is another way to clean your baby. P2. to top it all: used to introduce the culminating moment in a series of (typically unpleasant or unfortunate) events or experiences. Also to top it all off. ΚΠ 1863 Fun 28 Nov. 102/1 Accusations of the gravest description are bandied about with the greatest nonchalance, and to top it all one of the largest speculators withdraws without paying up. 1960 C. Isherwood Diary 15 Nov. in Sixties (2010) II. 26 Then, to top it all, we had tickets for The Threepenny Opera, and it was ugly and crude and dirty beyond belief. 1981 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 1st Ser. Episode 7. 65 Life's been pretty gutty for Earl quite recently... It's been like that between him and his missus (Moves hands up and down in balancing gesture) then to top it all his old man collapses in the Nag's Head right across the table. 2006 H. O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals 22 Then, to top it all off, he set his bed on fire with a cigarette when he was fifteen. 2018 M. Doyle Fug & Thumps (e-book ed.) ii I'm soaked through. And to top it all, my rucksack, with all the food and stuff, is soaking too. P3. Phrases with particular nouns as the object of the verb. a. to top the bill: (of an act or performer) to have top billing or be the star attraction in a show, venue, etc.; to be the star of a show. Also figurative: to be the leading or most popular person or thing in a particular context. Cf. sense 9c.In quot. 1823 ‘to top the evening's bill’ (sense 9a(b)). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performer > appear as performer [verb (intransitive)] > be star performer star1815 co-star1896 to have (also get) one's name in lights1918 1823 London Mag. July 101/1 If the performer, whose name tops the bill for the night, do not promise some very rash folly in the course of the evening, he may as well keep his tickets to himself.] 1883 Era 22 Dec. 10/2 The Sisters Clarinder top the bill, and have been well received. 1910 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith in City 3 He is a man of hobbies... When I left the house this morning he was all for cricket... Cricket seems still to be topping the bill. 1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman ii. 73 It's a very long time since the name of Maisie Mountjoy Topped the bill in revue. 1998 Grocer 1 Aug. 10/1 British speciality foods will top the bill at [the International Food & Drink Event]. 2022 Bradford Tel. & Argus (Nexis) 17 Mar. Topping the bill on the main stage is Leeds DJ Tom Zanetti. b. to top the deck: (in card-sharping) to manipulate which card appears on the top of the pack. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [verb (intransitive)] > methods of cheating swig1591 cog1592 slip1760 to top the deck1894 to deal seconds1951 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ v. 83 [The cuff holdout] is a neat invention to top the deck. 1911 Washington Post 21 May (Miscellany section) 3/6 It is this move which gives the trick its name, topping the deck. As Light buys the first card, he naturally fills his straight. 2011 R. Williamson Frontier Gambling 223 The Ring Holdout, this simple device is a short watch-spring that is attached onto a finger ring. It enabled an unaccomplished sharper to steal a card off the top of the deck—called, ‘topping the deck’. †c. Originally Nautical. to top the officer: to treat a person as one's inferior; to behave in a superior manner towards someone. Usually with over, introducing a prepositional phrase indicating the person treated in this way. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > pretend to superiority [verb (intransitive)] to make it goodlyc1325 usurpc1400 to take state upon one1597 to come over ——1600 to gentilize it1607 to state it1625 to give oneself airs1701 to put on airs1715 to mount (also ride) the high horse1782 to put on (the) dog1865 to get (also have) notions1866 to put on side1870 to have a roll on1881 to put (or pile) on lugs1889 side1890 to put on the Ritz1921 1767 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 10 Sept. He also hopes the mates will not be allowed to top the officers over the mids so far as to wear rose buttons and lappels, which are a very handsome part of the Lieutenants uniform. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiv. 181 I've been hail-fellow well met with the ship's company so long, that I can't top the officer over them. 1873 Graphic 4 Jan. 5/2 As for his sister, she is a good sort of girl in the main, and; as it pleases her to ‘top the officer’ over her distinguished brother, why, he allows her the privilege. †d. to top a saw: (U.S.) to fasten a strip along the top edge of a saw blade, either to stiffen it or to limit the depth of cut. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. Top,..3. To place and fasten upon the back margin of (a saw-blade) a stiffening piece, or a gage for limiting the depth of a kerf. extracted from topv.¹ < as lemmas
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