英语词汇“whose dog is a-hanging”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P13. whose dog is dead? (also whose dog is a-hanging, †what dog is a hanging?): what cause is there for excitement or concern? what's the fuss, what's the matter? (Occasionally also without interrogative.) Now rare.Cf. earlier whose mare's dead? (quot. 1600² at mare n.¹ 2c).

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a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. ii. 39 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Whose Dog's dead now, That you observe these Vigils?

a1663 Little John a Begging viii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 189/1 ‘Why rings all these bells? What dog is a hanging?’

1790 Aberdeen Mag. 3 333/1 Quidnuncs, gaping for the news; Some of them cannot read! but yet they hear..Then fly to tell thro' all the listening land Whose Dog is dead!

1841 Bentley's Misc. Aug. 146 ‘A very grave man indeed, sir.’... ‘Grave?—grievous—a face as much as to say, “Whose dog's dead, that I may come and howl over it?”.’

1984 P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 1336/2 Whose dog is dead?; whose dog's a-hanging?.. What is the matter?; what's all the fuss about?

单词	whose dog is a-hanging
释义	> as lemmas whose dog is a-hanging P13. whose dog is dead? (also whose dog is a-hanging, †what dog is a hanging?): what cause is there for excitement or concern? what's the fuss, what's the matter? (Occasionally also without interrogative.) Now rare.Cf. earlier whose mare's dead? (quot. 1600² at mare n.¹ 2c). ΚΠ a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. ii. 39 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Whose Dog's dead now, That you observe these Vigils? a1663 Little John a Begging viii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 189/1 ‘Why rings all these bells? What dog is a hanging?’ 1790 Aberdeen Mag. 3 333/1 Quidnuncs, gaping for the news; Some of them cannot read! but yet they hear..Then fly to tell thro' all the listening land Whose Dog is dead! 1841 Bentley's Misc. Aug. 146 ‘A very grave man indeed, sir.’... ‘Grave?—grievous—a face as much as to say, “Whose dog's dead, that I may come and howl over it?”.’ 1984 P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 1336/2 Whose dog is dead?; whose dog's a-hanging?.. What is the matter?; what's all the fuss about? extracted from dogn.¹ < as lemmas
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