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单词 cucumber season
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cucumber season
c. slang. Used with some obscure reference to a tailor. Hence cucumber time, cucumber season: see quots.
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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’.
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