| 单词 | cough drop |
| 释义 | > as lemmascough drop cough drop n. (a) a ‘drop’ or lozenge taken to cure or alleviate a cough; (b) slang a pungent or disagreeable person or thing; a ‘caution’ (see caution n. 3d). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > a special thing > an) extraordinary thing(s) singularity1576 extraordinary1589 remarkable1639 extraordinary1650 something else1844 cough drop1851 quite something1909 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for coughs > lozenge cough drop1851 cough-lozengea1893 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 3/1 Vendors of..sweetmeats, brandy-balls, cough drops. 1895 Referee 21 July 7/3 ‘Honest John Burns’,..who would have benefited considerably had his constituents given him a holiday, objects to being called ‘a cough drop’. c1895 Comic Song She looks as if she could curl your hair, Oh you've got a nice little cough drop there. 1897 W. S. Maugham Liza of Lambeth iv. 46 You are a coughdrop—..Ketch me refusin' when I 'ave the chanst. 1908 Daily Chron. 3 June 1/6 Strike me lucky, it was a corf-drop, it was, an' no mistike! 1908 Daily Chron. 10 Aug. 7/4 Didn't I tell you, sir, that she was a cough-drop? 1917 Strand Mag. Dec. 620/2 One o' the lightermen said I was a ‘wonder’, and the other said I was a ‘fair cough-drop’. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. i. 267 ‘Yond's a coughdrop,’ he announced to the room at large. < as lemmas |
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