英语词汇“calling down”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

calling down n. (a) the action of officially lowering the price, value, monetary rate, etc., of something, originally probably by proclamation (now historical); (b) (chiefly North American) a scolding, a dressing-down; cf. to call down 4 at call v. Phrasal verbs 1 (now somewhat rare).

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1551 T. Chamberlayne Let. 7 June in J. G. Nichols Lit. Remains Edward VI (1857) II. 321 The calling down of the money..to be the remedy for dearth of things as well within the realm.

1621 T. Culpeper Tract against Usurie 4 There is nothing more auaileable then the calling downe of the high rate of Vsury.

1886 Warren (Pa.) Daily Mirror 30 Mar. Last Thursday H. H. Kennedy came to this office and attempted to give us a calling down on what we wrote in regard to his trouble with the railroad.

1898 Observer 11 Dec. 3 The creditors of Spain..know that there will be a calling down of their revenue.

1930 R. Pertwee Pursuit i. xiii. 63 N.C.O.'s and other ranks were within hearing of the calling-down Frost was receiving.

1957 William & Mary Q. 14 384 This was the period when the Secretary to the Treasury, William Lowndes, was..advocating the calling down of the coin.

1985 N.Y. Times 15 Dec. h14/6 I was terrified of them. If I had a hairpin sticking out of my hair, I got a calling down.

单词	calling down
释义	> as lemmas calling down calling down n. (a) the action of officially lowering the price, value, monetary rate, etc., of something, originally probably by proclamation (now historical); (b) (chiefly North American) a scolding, a dressing-down; cf. to call down 4 at call v. Phrasal verbs 1 (now somewhat rare). ΚΠ 1551 T. Chamberlayne Let. 7 June in J. G. Nichols Lit. Remains Edward VI (1857) II. 321 The calling down of the money..to be the remedy for dearth of things as well within the realm. 1621 T. Culpeper Tract against Usurie 4 There is nothing more auaileable then the calling downe of the high rate of Vsury. 1886 Warren (Pa.) Daily Mirror 30 Mar. Last Thursday H. H. Kennedy came to this office and attempted to give us a calling down on what we wrote in regard to his trouble with the railroad. 1898 Observer 11 Dec. 3 The creditors of Spain..know that there will be a calling down of their revenue. 1930 R. Pertwee Pursuit i. xiii. 63 N.C.O.'s and other ranks were within hearing of the calling-down Frost was receiving. 1957 William & Mary Q. 14 384 This was the period when the Secretary to the Treasury, William Lowndes, was..advocating the calling down of the coin. 1985 N.Y. Times 15 Dec. h14/6 I was terrified of them. If I had a hairpin sticking out of my hair, I got a calling down. extracted from callingn. < as lemmas
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