| 单词 | wrongside |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswrong-side 10. wrong side ( †wrong-side, wrongside).Cf. Danish vrangside, Norwegian rangsida. extracted from wrongadj.adv. a. That side of some thing, a fabric, etc., which lies or is normally turned inward, downward, or away from one; the side opposite to the usual, or principal; the lower or under, the back or reverse, of two surfaces. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > rear surface wrong side1511 back1626 backside1645 counterfront1730 reverse1775 the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > side opposite to usual wrong side1511 1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 6 §1 The Walker..shall not rowe..Clothe..on the right side nor of the wrong side. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. Bi He hath turnd his typpet, twyse..: Fyrst on the wronge syde and last on the ryght. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 43 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The manner of their Woemens riding on the wrong side of the horse, I meane with their faces towards the right side. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 13 How quickely the wrong side [of a glove] may be turn'd outward. View more context for this quotation 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. iv. 42 The three sheep-skins with the wrong side outward. 1715 London Gaz. No. 5353/12 A jet black Mare,..a thick Mane lying on the wrong side. a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 98 Slit the leg of lamb down on the wrong-side. 1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 92 He jumped hastily on to his pony (from the wrong side, after the Indian fashion). b. In the adverbial phr. (the) wrong side out (†outwards), wrong side before. In later use frequently without article. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > inverted [phrase] > the wrong way round hind and forth13.. (the) wrong side out (outwards)1600 (the) wrong way1693 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 68 So turnes she euery man the wrong side out . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 47 My sicke foole Roderigo, Whom loue has turn'd almost the wrong side outward. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 100 He will find, that if ever another Turn befals the Nation, it will be the Wrongside outwards, the Lowest Uppermost. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxiv His hat was on wrong-side before. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi liv. 536 We all struggled frantically into our clothes,..getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down, as a rule. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children ix. 66 Trying hard to twist into its proper place a finger of the glove which would go on wrong side out. c. Phrases: to laugh on the wrong side (of one's mouth, face, etc.) (see laugh v. Phrases 1g); on the wrong side of the blanket Sc. (see blanket n. and adj. Phrases 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] > change from exultation to dejection to laugh on the wrong side (of one's mouth, face, etc.)1771 to laugh on (also out of) the other (also wrong) side1779 to laugh on (also out of) the other (also wrong) side of one's face1807 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adverb] > illegitimately unlawfullya1425 bastardlike1563 spuriously1755 on the wrong side of the blanket1771 1714 T. Lucas Mem. Most Famous Gamesters & Sharpers 65 But tho' he laugh'd, 'twas on the wrong side of his Mouth. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 242 I did'n't come on the wrong side of the blanket, girl. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. vii. 63 I..began to laugh and sing, though it was sometimes on the wrong side of my mouth. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. xii. 338 Shafton.., men say, was a-kin to the Piercie on the wrong side of the blanket. 1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace iii, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 7/1 By-and-by thou wilt laugh on the wrong side of thy face mainly. 1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxxiii I'll make some of ye laugh on the wrong side. d. The side, party, or principle of which one disapproves. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opponent > one's opponent(s) counterparty1557 wrong side1649 other side1653 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. 6 Oftentimes they choose the wrong side, and they that take the righter, doe it so by contingency. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 740 Because forsooth thy courage has been tried And stood the test, perhaps on the wrong side . View more context for this quotation 1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iii. i. 137 He could argue on the wrong side of any question with an acuteness [etc.]. e. on the wrong side of, older than (a specified age); upwards of. (Cf. shady adj. 2b.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > older than an age on the wrong side of1664 on the shady side of1807 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 140 She is smitten in years o'th wrong side of forty. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccl. 306 An Old Man on the Wrong-side of Four~score. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 282. ⁋3 They had..passed their Prime, and got on the wrongside of Thirty. 1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 276 He is on the wrong side of an Elderly man, but seems to have good Health. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. xx. 341 Am I..to look like a methodist parson on the wrong side of forty. 1895 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 394 A good-looking woman, a little on the wrong side of thirty, perhaps. f. The disadvantageous, undesirable, or unsafe side of some place, object, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [noun] > disadvantageous side of something worsec1275 wrong side1719 short end1860 ass-endc1947 arse-end1958 downside1977 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 264 We were on the wrong side of the Straits of Malacca. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband iv. i. 64 He takes me..into the Lobby [to vote];..but..I was got o' th' wrong side the Post. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship vi. 27 [The horse] has got an awkward trick..of leaving the other two on the wrong side of the fence. 1796 J. Aikin & A. L. Barbauld Evenings at Home V. 119 At length,..Young Peer [sc. a race-horse] ran on the wrong side of the post, was distanced, and the squire ruined. 1814 Family Politics iii. iv, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 224 I find I am on the wrong side of the post; I must flatter a little. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 135 His grandsire was from the wrong side of the Border. View more context for this quotation 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xx. 197 Still, Tony, you were on the wrong side of the post then. 1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. xvi. 308 He had bolted from his appointed course, going terribly on the wrong side of the posts. 1893 M. Cholmondeley Diana Tempest i The poor meagre home in a dingy street; the wrong side of Oxford Street. g. to get up or out of bed (on) the wrong side, with allusion to the supposed disturbing effect on one's temper. (Cf. right side n. Phrases 1.) colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [verb (intransitive)] to have pissed on a nettle1546 mumpc1610 to sell souse1611 sullena1652 sumpha1689 frump1693 hatch1694 sunk1724 mug?c1730 purt1746 sulk1781 to get up or out of bed (on) the wrong side1801 strum1804 boody1857 sull1869 grump1875 to hump the back1889 to have (also pull, throw, etc.) a moody1969 1801 E. Wright Marvellous Pleasant Love-story I. 167 You have got up on the wrong side, this morning, George. 1867 H. Kingsley Silcote xi Miss had got out of bed the wrong side. 1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 203 I never lived in a family that so often got out of bed on the wrong side, to use a homely expression. h. The side (of a highway) reserved for oncoming traffic (in Great Britain the right-hand side, in most other countries the left). Also jocular with reference to roads in countries having the opposite system to one's own. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > part where vehicles run > side for oncoming traffic wrong side1838 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxi. 20 Keeping on the wrong side of the road. 1914 M. Beerbohm in Eng. Rev. Dec. 19 Our car..was, for an instant, full on the wrong side of the road. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England xv. 264 A motor-bicycle..had been taking the natural advantage of its speed..to pass the limousine at fifty-five miles an hour on the wrong side at a blind corner. 1965 L. Sands Something to Hide ii. 31 ‘We..usually winter abroad.’ ‘Very nice too! If you can get used to driving on the wrong side.’ 1972 Guardian 27 Nov. 12/7 750,000 British drivers took their cars abroad last year... Many..accidents..[were] possibly caused by confusion over driving on the ‘wrong’ side of the road. wrongside 10. wrong side ( †wrong-side, wrongside).Cf. Danish vrangside, Norwegian rangsida. extracted from wrongadj.adv. a. That side of some thing, a fabric, etc., which lies or is normally turned inward, downward, or away from one; the side opposite to the usual, or principal; the lower or under, the back or reverse, of two surfaces. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > rear surface wrong side1511 back1626 backside1645 counterfront1730 reverse1775 the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > side opposite to usual wrong side1511 1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 6 §1 The Walker..shall not rowe..Clothe..on the right side nor of the wrong side. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. Bi He hath turnd his typpet, twyse..: Fyrst on the wronge syde and last on the ryght. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 43 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The manner of their Woemens riding on the wrong side of the horse, I meane with their faces towards the right side. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 13 How quickely the wrong side [of a glove] may be turn'd outward. View more context for this quotation 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. iv. 42 The three sheep-skins with the wrong side outward. 1715 London Gaz. No. 5353/12 A jet black Mare,..a thick Mane lying on the wrong side. a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 98 Slit the leg of lamb down on the wrong-side. 1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 92 He jumped hastily on to his pony (from the wrong side, after the Indian fashion). b. In the adverbial phr. (the) wrong side out (†outwards), wrong side before. In later use frequently without article. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > inverted [phrase] > the wrong way round hind and forth13.. (the) wrong side out (outwards)1600 (the) wrong way1693 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 68 So turnes she euery man the wrong side out . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 47 My sicke foole Roderigo, Whom loue has turn'd almost the wrong side outward. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 100 He will find, that if ever another Turn befals the Nation, it will be the Wrongside outwards, the Lowest Uppermost. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxiv His hat was on wrong-side before. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi liv. 536 We all struggled frantically into our clothes,..getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down, as a rule. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children ix. 66 Trying hard to twist into its proper place a finger of the glove which would go on wrong side out. c. Phrases: to laugh on the wrong side (of one's mouth, face, etc.) (see laugh v. Phrases 1g); on the wrong side of the blanket Sc. (see blanket n. and adj. Phrases 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] > change from exultation to dejection to laugh on the wrong side (of one's mouth, face, etc.)1771 to laugh on (also out of) the other (also wrong) side1779 to laugh on (also out of) the other (also wrong) side of one's face1807 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adverb] > illegitimately unlawfullya1425 bastardlike1563 spuriously1755 on the wrong side of the blanket1771 1714 T. Lucas Mem. Most Famous Gamesters & Sharpers 65 But tho' he laugh'd, 'twas on the wrong side of his Mouth. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 242 I did'n't come on the wrong side of the blanket, girl. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. vii. 63 I..began to laugh and sing, though it was sometimes on the wrong side of my mouth. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. xii. 338 Shafton.., men say, was a-kin to the Piercie on the wrong side of the blanket. 1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace iii, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 7/1 By-and-by thou wilt laugh on the wrong side of thy face mainly. 1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxxiii I'll make some of ye laugh on the wrong side. d. The side, party, or principle of which one disapproves. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opponent > one's opponent(s) counterparty1557 wrong side1649 other side1653 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. 6 Oftentimes they choose the wrong side, and they that take the righter, doe it so by contingency. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 740 Because forsooth thy courage has been tried And stood the test, perhaps on the wrong side . View more context for this quotation 1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iii. i. 137 He could argue on the wrong side of any question with an acuteness [etc.]. e. on the wrong side of, older than (a specified age); upwards of. (Cf. shady adj. 2b.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > older than an age on the wrong side of1664 on the shady side of1807 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 140 She is smitten in years o'th wrong side of forty. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccl. 306 An Old Man on the Wrong-side of Four~score. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 282. ⁋3 They had..passed their Prime, and got on the wrongside of Thirty. 1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 276 He is on the wrong side of an Elderly man, but seems to have good Health. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. xx. 341 Am I..to look like a methodist parson on the wrong side of forty. 1895 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 394 A good-looking woman, a little on the wrong side of thirty, perhaps. f. The disadvantageous, undesirable, or unsafe side of some place, object, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [noun] > disadvantageous side of something worsec1275 wrong side1719 short end1860 ass-endc1947 arse-end1958 downside1977 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 264 We were on the wrong side of the Straits of Malacca. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband iv. i. 64 He takes me..into the Lobby [to vote];..but..I was got o' th' wrong side the Post. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship vi. 27 [The horse] has got an awkward trick..of leaving the other two on the wrong side of the fence. 1796 J. Aikin & A. L. Barbauld Evenings at Home V. 119 At length,..Young Peer [sc. a race-horse] ran on the wrong side of the post, was distanced, and the squire ruined. 1814 Family Politics iii. iv, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 224 I find I am on the wrong side of the post; I must flatter a little. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 135 His grandsire was from the wrong side of the Border. View more context for this quotation 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xx. 197 Still, Tony, you were on the wrong side of the post then. 1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. xvi. 308 He had bolted from his appointed course, going terribly on the wrong side of the posts. 1893 M. Cholmondeley Diana Tempest i The poor meagre home in a dingy street; the wrong side of Oxford Street. g. to get up or out of bed (on) the wrong side, with allusion to the supposed disturbing effect on one's temper. (Cf. right side n. Phrases 1.) colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [verb (intransitive)] to have pissed on a nettle1546 mumpc1610 to sell souse1611 sullena1652 sumpha1689 frump1693 hatch1694 sunk1724 mug?c1730 purt1746 sulk1781 to get up or out of bed (on) the wrong side1801 strum1804 boody1857 sull1869 grump1875 to hump the back1889 to have (also pull, throw, etc.) a moody1969 1801 E. Wright Marvellous Pleasant Love-story I. 167 You have got up on the wrong side, this morning, George. 1867 H. Kingsley Silcote xi Miss had got out of bed the wrong side. 1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 203 I never lived in a family that so often got out of bed on the wrong side, to use a homely expression. h. The side (of a highway) reserved for oncoming traffic (in Great Britain the right-hand side, in most other countries the left). Also jocular with reference to roads in countries having the opposite system to one's own. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > part where vehicles run > side for oncoming traffic wrong side1838 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxi. 20 Keeping on the wrong side of the road. 1914 M. Beerbohm in Eng. Rev. Dec. 19 Our car..was, for an instant, full on the wrong side of the road. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England xv. 264 A motor-bicycle..had been taking the natural advantage of its speed..to pass the limousine at fifty-five miles an hour on the wrong side at a blind corner. 1965 L. Sands Something to Hide ii. 31 ‘We..usually winter abroad.’ ‘Very nice too! If you can get used to driving on the wrong side.’ 1972 Guardian 27 Nov. 12/7 750,000 British drivers took their cars abroad last year... Many..accidents..[were] possibly caused by confusion over driving on the ‘wrong’ side of the road. < as lemmas |
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