| 单词 | wheel of fortune |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswheel of fortune 5. In full wheel of fortune (see sense 12a): = lottery wheel n. at lottery n. Compounds 2. Also allusively. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > wheels, etc. Ragman rollc1450 luck in a bag1649 wheel1698 lottery wheel1739 1698 Post Boy 3 Jan. in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1422 We have divers wheels agoing. 1750 in New Jersey Archives (1895) 1st Ser. XII. 640 The [Lottery] Ticketts will be putting into the wheels on Wednesday. 1763 Brit. Mag. 4 548 Beware the Wheel of Fortune—'tis a gin, You'll lose a dozen times for once you win. a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) ii. 35 I believe Toby will hardly thank me for going into the wheel. 1801 T. Moore To the Large & Beaut. Miss —— 4 But how comes it that you, such a capital prize, Should so long have remained in the wheel? 1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 167 Stalls, provided with wheels-of-fortune, at which the Norman lass boldly ventures her solid sous for empty hopes. 1880 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 4) 121 Wheel-of-fortune men, offering to make all rich in a jiffie. < as lemmas |
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