| 单词 | butler's box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutler's box ΚΠ 1591 H. Smith Exam. Vsury 31 They [sc. Vsurers] are like a Butlers box: for as all the counters at last come to the Butler; so all the mony at last commeth to the Vsurer. 1597 Returne fr. Parnassus Pt. 2 Prol. 44 The Pilgrimage to Pernassus, and the returne from Pernassus haue..hindred the buttlers box, and emptied the Colledge barrells. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iii. iii. 201 Whoever lost, signior Papa, like the butlers box, was sure to get. 1699 H. Curson Compend. Laws Eng., Scotl. & Ireland 391 At such time they have divers Divertisments, as Feasting every day, Singing, Dancing, Dicing, which is..so Excessive, that the Butlers Box usually amounts to above 50 l. a Day and Night, With which and a Small Contribution from each Student, are the great Charges of the Christmass defrayed. < as lemmas |
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