| 释义 |
toot sweet, adv.|tuːt swiːt|
Also toot and sweat, toots sweet; compar. the tooter the sweeter.
[Repr. colloq. anglicization of F. tout de suite.]
Straightaway; promptly, quickly; freq. used as imp.
1917A. G. Empey Over Top 311 ‘Toots Sweet.’ Tommy's French for ‘hurry up’, ‘look smart’. 1917Punch 5 Dec. 389 (caption) Tommy (to inquisitive French children): ‘Nah, then, alley toot sweet, an' the tooter the sweeter.’ 1929[see fuck v. 3]. 1942‘N. Shute’ Pied Piper v. 109 Get them kids dressed toot and sweet—I ain't going to wait all night. 1959R. Postgate Every Man is God xxiii. 216 ‘The tooter the sweeter’ was an adjuration to do something, usually bringing a drink, more tout de suite, more promptly. 1967Guardian 16 May 2/8 Your two brace of crocodiles[' eggs] have arrived—Yes. I'll get 'em incubated toot sweet. 1978D. Williams Treasure up in Smoke xiii. 118 The Governor wanted him toot sweet this morning but he hasn't shown up. |