| 单词 | cut the cackle |
| 释义 | > as lemmascut the cackle (and come to the horses) a. figurative. Stupid loquacity, silly chatter. Colloquial phrase cut the cackle (and come to the horses): stop talking (and get to the heart of the matter, the real business); hence cackle-cutting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter chirma800 clappingc1386 glavera1400 clapa1420 clackc1440 blabc1460 clattera1500 babble?a1525 babblery1532 pratery1533 clitter-clatter1535 by-talk?1551 prattle1555 prittle-prattle1556 twittle-twattle1565 cacquet1567 prate?1574 prattlement1579 babblement1595 gibble-gabble1600 gabble1602 twattlea1639 tolutiloquence1656 pratement1657 gaggle1668 leden1674 cackle1676 twit-twat1677 clash1685 chit-chat1710 chatter-chitter1711 chitter-chatter1712 palavering1732 hubble-bubble1735 palaver1748 rattle1748 gum1751 mag1778 gabber1780 gammon1781 gash1787 chattery1789 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 yabble1808 clacket1812 talky-talky1812 potter1818 yatter1827 blue streak1830 gabblement1831 psilologya1834 chin-music1834 patter1841 jaw1842 chatter1851 brabble1861 tongue-work1866 yacker1882 talkee1885 chelp1891 chattermag1895 whitter1897 burble1898 yap1907 clatfart1913 jive1928 logorrhœa1935 waffle1937 yackety-yacking1953 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 motormouth1976 the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > taciturnity [phrase] > stop speaking about trivial matters cut the cackle (and come to the horses)1889 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. Dv Bedawb'd with..Addle Eggs of the Animadverters own Cackle. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 15 The rustic cackle of your bourg. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 262 The cackle about Claude. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 216/1 The great Ducrow..was wont to apostrophise the performers in his equestrian drama after this fashion: ‘Come, I say, you mummers, cut your cackle, and come to the 'osses!’ 1899 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 2/1 Nine-tenths would be delighted if the famous phrase about ‘cutting the cackle’ were acted upon. 1919 G. B. Shaw in Shaw on Theatre (1958) 124 Out with the lot of them, then: let us cut the cackle and come to the 'osses. 1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah v. 239 Cut the cackle; and come to the synthetic couple. 1930 W. Lewis Apes of God xii. vi. 469 Cut the cackle Arthur—I'm pressed for time! 1957 Economist 28 Dec. 1106/1 Nor..will delegates reassemble..in September after parting only in March—a decidedly cackle-cutting feature of this last session. 1958 J. Wain Contenders ix. 193 ‘You must be wondering what all this is about,’ Ned put in, adopting his money-man's tone of directness and cackle-cutting. cut the cackle b. imperative (slang) = to cut out at Phrasal verbs (see to cut out 1 at Phrasal verbs below). Colloquial phrase cut the cackle (see cackle n. 3a). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > leave off! or stop it! to do waya1325 stay1601 go and eat coke1669 to leave off1785 whoa1838 drop it!1843 cut1859 turn it up1867 to come off ——1896 to chuck it1901 knock it off!1902 cut it out1903 nix1903 break it down1941 to shove it1941 leave it out!1969 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 28 Cut,..to cease doing anything. 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 28 Cut that, be quiet, or stop. a1871 T. W. Robertson Caste i. 6 Geo. Well, then, eighteen months ago — Haw. Oh, cut that; you told me all about that. 1907 E. S. Field Six-cylinder Courtship 54 ‘My dear fellow—’ I began. ‘Cut it!’ he commanded. 1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 314 Come on, Herm, cut the comedy. It's time we were getting across to our hotel. < as lemmas |
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