| 单词 | top or tail |
| 释义 | > as lemmastop or tail d. top or tail (formerly also †top, tail, or mane (also root)): anything definite or intelligible. Chiefly in negative constructions with make, as in not to make top nor tail of, to make neither top nor tail of, etc.Cf. not to make top or bottom of at Phrases 4a(c), to make neither top nor toe of at Phrases 2b, (not) to make head nor tail of at head n.1 Phrases 3r(a). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > offering nothing intelligible [phrase] to have neither head nor foot (also feet)1567 (as) clear as mud1805 top or tail- 1727 P. Walker Remarkable Passages 62 His Sermon had neither Top, Tail, nor Mane. 1757 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 364 Neither the writing nor the matter could he make top, taill or mane of. 1822 T. Carlyle Early Lett. (1886) II. 32 They will..make neither ‘top, tail, nor root out of it’. 1867 Orchestra 10 Aug. 313/3 Can anybody make top or tail of the following sentence? 1885 Manch. Courier 23 Nov. 6/2 There was no single human being who had been able to make top or tail of that manifesto, even after it had been explained by Mr. Gladstone. 1898 E. W. Hamilton Mawkin of Flow xi I canna make top tail nor mane of the bit song you been rhaming o'er. ?c1900 A. J. Armstrong Robbie Rankine's Visit Glasgow Exhib. 33 Hang me if I can mak' tap, tail, or root o' a' their falderals. 1946 Western Daily Press & Bristol Mirror 9 Nov. 5/7 The bewildered porter could make neither top nor tail of what they were doing in that part of the world. 2009 Sunday Tribune (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 8 Nov. 6 I couldn't make top nor tail of the language that the presenters were speaking in, but the music and singing..cut across all language barriers. < as lemmas |
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