| 单词 | dash my buttons |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdash (also damn, dang, bless, etc.) my buttons P4. colloquial. dash (also damn, dang, bless, etc.) my buttons: expressing surprise, astonishment, exasperation, dismay, etc. Often used to intensify or emphasize a statement. Now somewhat archaic and rare (chiefly North American in later use). ΚΠ 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. xxxii. 161 I'd soon make you dance to a dozen at the bilboes, that's what I would, d——n my buttons. 1796 ‘J. Quicksilver’ Blue Shop 19 Dang my buttons (exclaimed I) but this writer is mighty witty. 1843 P. Leigh Jack the Giant Killer 18 ‘Dash my buttons,’ he cried, ‘I have lost my way!’ 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand (1880) xliv. 332 Ding my buttons if she ain't more Southern than any of our own gals! It won't do for such a gal as that to go North for a husband. 1907 Mitchell (S. Dakota) Daily Republican 7 May Blow my buttons! Wot d'ye want? Ain't ye got a tongue? 1935 N.Y. Times 11 May 12/2 Dash my buttons! That's a good one! 1971 Columbia Missourian 25 Sept. 4/1 Bless my buttons! Doris Day falls in love. < as lemmas |
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