单词 | week and week about |
释义 | > as lemmasweek and week about c. week and week about: in alternate weeks; (hence attributive) organized by arranging for things to occur in alternate weeks. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [adverb] > every specific number of weeks week and week about1796 fortnightly1820 tri-weekly1837 1796 Rules & Orders Brotherhood Malsters Newcastle 11 Each of the Stewards..shall visit him or them so being sick week and week about. a1835 D. Price Mem. Field Officer (1839) x. 200 For some time past four or five of us had continued to keep mess alternately, week and week about. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed vi. 94 The girls were supposed to market week and week about. 1919 C. R. Allen Instructor (ed. 6) xlii. 338 Classes are usually organized in such a way that a period of shop work alternates with a period of instruction in non-shop work. The two most common arrangements are: (1) the half day period, and (2) the week and week about period. 1996 M. Henry Young Children, Parents & Professionals 36 The children alternated, week and week about, their stints in these classes with their voluntary groups. < as lemmas |
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