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单词 five eggs a penny, and four of them addle
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five eggs a penny, and four of them addle
a. Phrases: a bad egg (colloquial): a person or a scheme that disappoints expectation. Similarly good egg (slang): (a) an excellent person or object; (b) an exclamation of enthusiastic approbation; also with other preceding adjectives, esp. tough. †egg and bird: in youth and maturity, from beginning to end, first and last. to break the egg in anybody's pocket: to spoil his plan. †to take eggs for money: to be put off with something worthless. to have eggs on the spit: to have business in hand. to tread upon eggs: to walk warily, as on delicate ground. †(to be) with egg: (to be) ready to lay; also figurative. †to come in with five eggs: to break in fussily with an idle story; more fully, five eggs a penny, and four of them addle. to have (get, etc.) egg on one's face: to be made to look foolish; to be embarrassed or humiliated by the turn of events.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > have business in hand
to have tow on one's rock (distaff)c1405
to have eggs on the spit1542
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > expressions of commendation [interjection]
well-donea1500
macte1573
hear- him1727
hear1768
that's your sort1792
top marks1829
that's the spirit1853
good for you (also him, her, etc.)1855
good man1887
good egg1903
attaboy1909
to go up (also down) one1909
right on1911
hotcha1931
thataboy1936
hubba-hubba1944
chapeau1976
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing
carbunclea1350
swanc1386
phoenixc1400
diamondc1440
broocha1464
surmounterc1500
sovereign?a1513
primrose peerless1523
superlative1577
transcendent1593
Arabian birda1616
crack1637
first rate1681
peach1710
phoenicle1711
admiration1717
spanker1751
first-raterc1760
no slouch of1767
nailer1806
tip-topper1822
ripper1825
ripstaver1828
apotheosis1832
clinker1836
clipper1836
bird1839
keener1839
ripsnorter1840
beater1845
firecracker1845
pumpkin1845
screamer1846
stunner1847
bottler1855
beaut1866
bobby-dazzler1866
one out of the box1867
stem-winder1875
corker1877
trimmer1878
hot stuff1884
daisy1886
jim-dandy1887
cracker1891
jim-hickey1895
peacherino1896
pippin1897
alpha plus1898
peacherine1900
pip1900
humdinger1905
bosker1906
hummer1907
good egg1914
superstar1914
the berries1918
bee's knee1923
the cat's whiskers1923
smash1923
smash hit1923
brahma1925
dilly1935
piss-cutter1935
killer1937
killer-diller1938
a hard act to follow1942
peacheroo1942
bitch1946
brammerc1950
hot shit1960
Tiffany1973
bollocks1981
the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > be ashamed [verb (intransitive)] > be embarrassed
to look ateOE
not to know which way (also where) to look1566
to sink through the floor1839
to have (get, etc.) egg on one's face1964
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 272 Persones comyng in with their fiue egges, how that Sylla had geuen ouer his office of Dictature.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Evi An other cummeth in wyth hys v. egges.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. iii. sig. G3 I haue egges on the spit; I cannot go yet, sir. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 163 Mine honest Friend, Will you take Egges for Money? View more context for this quotation
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. i. 130 Contented to take Eggs (as it were) for their money.
1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell sig. Aiv I have been such a profligate Liver, Egg, and Bird.
1733 ‘P. Drake’ Grotto (title page) Apollo's..Grotto makes them [Witts] all with egg.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) 324 This very circumstance..broke the egg..in the Pockets of the Whigs.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 127 This gave him Occasion..to find if any Slip had been made (for he all along trod upon Eggs).
1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 57 Very like that of a Female Bee, Wasp, or Queen Ant, when not with Egg.
1855 ‘P. Paxton’ Capt. Priest 319 In the language of his class, the Perfect Bird generally turns out to be ‘a bad egg’.
1864 Athenæum 559/1 ‘A bad egg’,..a fellow who had not proved to be as good as his promise.
1884 W. Black Judith Shakespeare xiii, in Harper's Mag. May 954/2 I have other eggs on the spit.
1903 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 138 ‘Us'll find they ships!’..‘Good egg!’ quoth Moorshed.
1910 J. Galsworthy Justice 1 A real bad egg.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. x. 711 It doesn't look a hundred quid to a tanner on his blue. Bad luck. He's a very good egg.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. xii. 739 Oxford was divided into Bad Men and Good Eggs.
1915 D. O. Barnett Let. in In Happy Memory 56 We are going to do this regularly, and I think it is a very good egg.
1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh x. §3 ‘She isn't going to sue me for breach?’ ‘She never had any intention of doing so.’ The Hon. Frederick sank back on the pillows. ‘Good egg!’ he said with fervour.
1920 J. Galsworthy In Chancery i. xii. 100 He was a rotten egg.
1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert x. 256 ‘Well?’ we said anxiously. ‘I like it,’ said the editor. ‘Good egg!’ we murmured.
1929 S. Aumonier Ups & Downs 418 Hullo, Pan! Good egg!
1930 E. H. Lavine Third Degree (1931) iii. 30 Occasionally, a really tough egg is trained to be a killer.
1938 P. G. Wodehouse Summer Moonshine i. 18 She's a tough egg.
1964 Sat. Night (Toronto) July 17/1 The move left many critics with egg on their faces.
1972 Times 19 Feb. 7/1 There is something reassuringly changeless about the capacity of the highest military authorities for getting egg on their faces.
1977 Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Oct. 11/2 The most immediate need is to decide why the physical measurements of the ages of the East African rocks appear to suggest such different patterns of hominid evolution from that provided by the evolution of the wild pig. In the process, many people will be discovered to have egg on their faces.
1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl x. 186 I'm just stuck there, am I, with egg on my face.
1984 Listener 15 Mar. 16/3 ‘Canadian Far East Trade Corporation’, ‘H and H Enterprises’ and ‘CMI Investments’ led the trustee to conclude that the CIA must have ‘egg on its face’ for associating with a swindler.
1985 Times 3 Jan. 13/1 BAT..succeeded in constantly getting egg on its face.
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