英语词汇“what the butler saw”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. Originally and chiefly British. what the butler saw: (a title for) a sequence of pictures of a titillating or erotic nature viewed on a mutoscope or similar device; frequently attributive, designating a device of this kind. Now chiefly historical.

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1907 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 22 Mar. 225/2 There were several mutoscopes in the place... On one of the machines was written ‘What Tommy Saw Through the Keyhole’, on another ‘Spooning in the Park’, a third bore the legend ‘Matilda's Courtship’, and a fourth had written on it ‘What the Butler Saw’.

1930 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xviii. 258 They looked through the ‘Peeposcopes’ at a penny a time. These had alluring titles, such as..‘What the Butler Saw’.

1966 Listener 18 Aug. 236/2 It is from the fairground peep show and the what-the-butler-saw machine that the works of Chaplin, Lang, De Sica, and Fellini have evolved.

2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 15 Aug. 22 ‘What the butler saw’ machines were a staple of British amusement arcades for much of the 20th century.

单词	what the butler saw
释义	> as lemmas what the butler saw P2. Originally and chiefly British. what the butler saw: (a title for) a sequence of pictures of a titillating or erotic nature viewed on a mutoscope or similar device; frequently attributive, designating a device of this kind. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1907 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 22 Mar. 225/2 There were several mutoscopes in the place... On one of the machines was written ‘What Tommy Saw Through the Keyhole’, on another ‘Spooning in the Park’, a third bore the legend ‘Matilda's Courtship’, and a fourth had written on it ‘What the Butler Saw’. 1930 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xviii. 258 They looked through the ‘Peeposcopes’ at a penny a time. These had alluring titles, such as..‘What the Butler Saw’. 1966 Listener 18 Aug. 236/2 It is from the fairground peep show and the what-the-butler-saw machine that the works of Chaplin, Lang, De Sica, and Fellini have evolved. 2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 15 Aug. 22 ‘What the butler saw’ machines were a staple of British amusement arcades for much of the 20th century. extracted from butlern. < as lemmas
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