释义 |
hand and glove, hand-and-glove, pred. or adj. phr. Also (later) hand in glove. In constant close relations, on very intimate terms.
1680R. Mansel Narr. Popish Plot 103 Mrs. Cellier, to whom Mr. Willoughby was such a Croney, that they were hand and glove. 1780Cowper Table T. 173 As if the world and they were hand and glove. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xxiv. 206 He's not hand-and-glove with Lord Derby. β1799–1800Burdon Pursuits Lit. I. 47 (L.) Our author is here hand in glove with Providence. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet i. iv, The Doctor is..hand-in-glove with the bishop. 1889County xxii, Priestman and the new Lady Sandilands are already hand in glove. |