单词 | cucumber season |
释义 | > as lemmascucumber season c. slang. Used with some obscure reference to a tailor. Hence cucumber time, cucumber season: see quots. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cucumbers, Taylers. Cucumber-time, Taylers Holiday, when they have leave to Play, and Cucumbers are in Season. 1720 in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII. 471 Here a scratch, there a stitch, And sing Cucumber, Cucumber ho! 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 848 A journeyman tailor!..This cross-legg'd cabbage-eating son of a cucumber. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Sept. 16/2 Tailors could not be expected to earn much money ‘in cucumber season’..‘Because when cucumbers are in, the gentry are out of town’. < as lemmas |
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