单词 | etc on ice |
释义 | > as lemmasto put (also serve, keep, etc.) on ice (a) placed on top of ice or in a container filled with ice to keep cold; chiefly in to put (also serve, keep, etc.) on ice: to chill or cool (food or a bottle of wine, beer, etc.) by placing on top of ice, or in a container filled with ice; cf. sense 2c. ΚΠ 1818 L. E. Ude Fr. Cook (ed. 5) 333 Jellies..must be worked cold, and be put on ice very promptly. 1892 Cosmopolitan July 298/1 Champagne is frequently on the doctor's prescription.., though served neither on ice nor by the small bottle. 1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 27/2 She bought the best porterhouse steak she could find and put it on ice. 1984 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 376 Moonlight and roses, champagne on ice. 2009 A. D. Livingston Freshwater Fish Cookbk. 167/1 If the fish are kept on ice, the gutting can wait for a day or two. to put (also keep, leave, etc.) (a person or thing) on ice e. colloquial (originally U.S.). Postponed, deferred; held in reserve; chiefly in to put (also keep, leave, etc.) (a person or thing) on ice: to hold in reserve; to postpone for attention at a later date, defer; now rarely to put on the ice. ΚΠ 1875 W. Scanlon Since Terry first joined Gang! (sheet music) 1/1 Old man, you're getting too fresh, And we'll soon have to put you on the ice. 1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody xx. 231 For Election. Gussie de P. Van Beekman... On ice! 1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling 328 They say she's never been able to find a man good enough for her, and so she's keeping herself on ice. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle ix. 117 Because the German mercantile marine was laid on ice till the end of the war, they had turned him on to this show. 1932 Amer. Speech 7 335 Put it on the ice, ‘forget it’. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xix. 322 Their idea is to put you on ice quietly till they've had time to settle up their affairs. 1957 A. Grimble Return to Islands 75 The problem that his resignation had left on ice, for whomever it might concern. 1965 New Statesman 14 May 771/2 Presumably the book, finished in 1957, was put on ice, for Mr Wood can hardly have hoped to get away in Beaverbrook's lifetime with much of the discussion of his ‘brash brutality’. 1991 S. Kendrick in Comfort & Joy (1997) 340 ‘It's on Wednesday.’‘Keep those kisses on ice until then?’ 2009 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 11 June 27/3 The RTA smelter, while on ice, will go ahead..when its new stations..come on line. < as lemmas |
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