| 单词 | drum's entertainment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDrum's entertainment ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > unpleasant greeting or welcome welcome1548 Jack Drum's entertainment1577 unwelcoming1838 sneck posset1876 the frozen mitt1903 unwelcome1912 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 10/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Tom Drum his entertaynment, which is, to bale a man in by the heade, and thrust him out by both the shoulders. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 4 Plato..gaue them all Drummes entertainment, not suffering them once to shew their faces in a reformed common wealth. 1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. L2 If his backe be poore..and hath neither money nor friends, he shall haue Tom Drums entertainment. 1612 J. Taylor Laugh & be Fat 42 Not like the entertainment of Iacke Drum, Who was best welcome when he went his way. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vi. 39 If you giue him not Iohn drummes entertainement. View more context for this quotation ?c1685 Youngmans Careless Wooing (single sheet) Thy Entertainment shall be like Iack Drum. 1819 W. Scott Let. 4 Apr. (1933) V. 337 They have had Tom Drum's Entertainment, for I have been seized with one or two successive crises of my cruel malady. 1831 R. Southey in J. Jones Attempts in Verse 48 It had been a wet and windy day, and meeting with something like Tom Drum's entertainment from the hostess..they were fain to hobble seven miles more. 1884 C. G. Leland Algonquin Legends New Eng. 371 The enemy had well-nigh made Jack Drum's entertainment for them. < as lemmas |
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