| 单词 | doing dags |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdoing dags A feat of skill; chiefly plural, esp. in doing dags (see quots.). ΚΠ 1879 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 12 128/1 ‘I'll do you (or your) dags.’—An expression used by children of young, and sometimes of older, growth, meaning, ‘I'll do something that you cannot do.’ 1886 Fun (Farmer) He was very fond of what, in schoolboy days, we used to call doing dags. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) To ‘set a dag’ is to perform some feat in such a way as to challenge imitation... There's a dag for you—i.e. there is a feat—do it if you can. 1898 Daily News 4 Oct. 6/3 What does your entertainment principally consist of?.. Doing ‘dags’ to make the people laugh. 1902 Windsor Mag. June 114/1 Wearing it in your hat shows that you don't funk me. It's doing my dags to touch you. < as lemmas |
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