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

cob-house n. originally U.S. a house built by children out of corn-cobs, hence applied figuratively to any insecure or unsubstantial scheme, etc.

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1774 J. Belknap in J. Marcou Life (1847) 68 They have a neat poultry house, built of sawed strips of wood, in the form of a cob-house.

1818 M. Birkbeck Lett. from Illinois 116 In this country they build ‘cob-houses’;..with these cobs..structures are raised by the little half-Indian brats, very much like our houses of cards.

1834 Deb. Congress 26 Feb. 736 With the first shock in the commerce or credit of the country, the whole cob-house fabric must crumble.

1858 E. E. Hale in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 634/2 The child had been building cob-houses out of lucifer-matches in a paper-warehouse.

1881 Harper's Mag. Nov. 824 George builds a cob-house.

单词	cob-house
释义	> as lemmas cob-house cob-house n. originally U.S. a house built by children out of corn-cobs, hence applied figuratively to any insecure or unsubstantial scheme, etc. ΚΠ 1774 J. Belknap in J. Marcou Life (1847) 68 They have a neat poultry house, built of sawed strips of wood, in the form of a cob-house. 1818 M. Birkbeck Lett. from Illinois 116 In this country they build ‘cob-houses’;..with these cobs..structures are raised by the little half-Indian brats, very much like our houses of cards. 1834 Deb. Congress 26 Feb. 736 With the first shock in the commerce or credit of the country, the whole cob-house fabric must crumble. 1858 E. E. Hale in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 634/2 The child had been building cob-houses out of lucifer-matches in a paper-warehouse. 1881 Harper's Mag. Nov. 824 George builds a cob-house. extracted from cobn.¹ < as lemmas
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