英语词汇“couldn't stop a pig in a passage”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P15. colloquial. couldn't stop a pig in a passage (also alley, ginnel, etc.) and variants: said of a bow-legged person.

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1840 Age 13 Dec. 398/2 Roderigo was entrusted to a youth, whose legs were wide asunder, like the poles, or as a gallery wit tritely observed, a rum customer ‘to stop a pig’.]

1860 Once a Week 21 Jan. 77/1 Of his legs I have only to say, that he was the very last person whom you would have selected to stop a pig in a gate, for the obvious reason that the animal in question would most undoubtedly have run between them.

1882 W. Westall Red Ryvington (1885) xxx. 161 ‘He couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel [entry], not to save his life, he couldn't.’ (John's legs were just a little bowed.)

1963 Times 13 Apr. 3/1 Hunt..has the same sort of Welsh stand-off look as his opposite number, short and with legs not designed to stop a pig in a street.

1991 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 16 Apr. (Everyday Mag. section) 3 Some range rider so bowlegged that he couldn't stop a pig in a two-foot alley.

2012 K. Flynn Christmas to Remember 111 Tess had heard Adam described as ‘a fellow who couldn't stop a pig in a passage’... For Adam was bowlegged.

单词	couldn't stop a pig in a passage
释义	> as lemmas couldn't stop a pig in a passage (also alley, ginnel, etc.) P15. colloquial. couldn't stop a pig in a passage (also alley, ginnel, etc.) and variants: said of a bow-legged person. ΚΠ 1840 Age 13 Dec. 398/2 Roderigo was entrusted to a youth, whose legs were wide asunder, like the poles, or as a gallery wit tritely observed, a rum customer ‘to stop a pig’.] 1860 Once a Week 21 Jan. 77/1 Of his legs I have only to say, that he was the very last person whom you would have selected to stop a pig in a gate, for the obvious reason that the animal in question would most undoubtedly have run between them. 1882 W. Westall Red Ryvington (1885) xxx. 161 ‘He couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel [entry], not to save his life, he couldn't.’ (John's legs were just a little bowed.) 1963 Times 13 Apr. 3/1 Hunt..has the same sort of Welsh stand-off look as his opposite number, short and with legs not designed to stop a pig in a street. 1991 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 16 Apr. (Everyday Mag. section) 3 Some range rider so bowlegged that he couldn't stop a pig in a two-foot alley. 2012 K. Flynn Christmas to Remember 111 Tess had heard Adam described as ‘a fellow who couldn't stop a pig in a passage’... For Adam was bowlegged. extracted from pign.¹ < as lemmas
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