| 单词 | first chop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfirst (second) chop a. Hence, Anglo-Indian and colloquial. first (second) chop: first (or other) rank, rate, position, quality, etc.; also attributive. no chop, ‘no class’ (Australian). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class > according to quality rank1558 class1616 alliance1674 quality1765 grade1807 first (second) chop1823 run1833 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important > position or rank headeOE first class1616 first (second) chop1823 premier division1902 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of secondary importance handmaidena1425 handmaid1533 anise1741 first (second) chop1823 secondary1841 footnote1858 bush league1928 1823 C. W. Wynn Let. in Duke of Buckingham & Chandos Mem. Court George IV (1859) I. 478 I must make my table up with directors, military men, and such like second chop. 1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 7 It [a carriage] is a beautiful article—a real first chop—no mistake. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxii. 81 We are the first-chop of the world. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xl. 154 They are a sort of second-chop dandies. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xiii. 231 You must be first chop in heaven, else you won't like it much. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. ii. 16 There's good and bad of every sort, and I've met plenty that were no chop of all churches. < as lemmas |
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