| 单词 | full of wind like a barber's cat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfull of wind (and water or piss) like a barber's cat A cat kept by a barber. In similative phrases, invoking various attributes or characteristics associated with such a cat, as loquaciousness, sickliness, thinness, conceitedness, etc. Esp. in full of wind (and water or piss) like a barber's cat and variants: full of empty or bombastic talk (cf. piss and wind n. at piss n. Phrases 1a). ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [adjective] > engaging in idle talk babblinga1250 chatteringa1250 drivellinga1475 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 prating1528 bluddering1553 chatting1589 mouthy1589 dribbling1593 tinkling1625 stultiloquious1683 havering1720 vaniloquent1727 haverela1774 havering1808 stultiloquent1845 yattering1859 blethery1889 blithering1889 yackety-yacking1953 yacketing1958 nattering1959 yacking1959 chopsy1974 1836 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 27 Aug. 221/1 Smith says the old..[male panther] died hard, and in his last struggles, was like the barber's cat, all wind and water. 1840 C. Peake Saucy Jack I. 256 Why, bless you, Sir, saving the presence of the ladies, I feel as full of wind as a barber's cat. 1871 Southern Argus (Port Elliot, South Austral.) 5 May 2/5 ‘I was once so big’ (extending his arms around the space in front of him)... ‘Now, alas! I am gone to skin and grief, like the barber's cat.’ 1890 E. W. Gilliam 1791: Tale of San Domingo 225 He was acquainted with the circumstances of only one of the prisoners, M. Henry Pascal, and..he knew him now to be as poor as a barber's cat. 1917 Monthly Musical Rec. Mar. 57/2 I am getting as thin as a barber's cat from worry. 1932 Financial Times 24 Nov. 1/7 The spread was little more than 1½ cents. In the words of one prominent banker, the market was ‘something like the proverbial barber's cat’. 1952 ‘H. Grey’ Hoods 202 You're-full-of-wind-and-piss—like-a-barber's-cat. 1974 P. Beatty How Many Miles to Sundown x. 196 You're mean enough to have a reserved seat in hell and as conceited as a barber's cat. 2015 Farming Life (Nexis) 16 Mar. So far as..City Councillors are concerned..the old saying: ‘Full of wind and water like a barber's cat’ comes to mind. There they were last week getting all hot and bothered about..[the] need to have fox hunting banned. < as lemmas |
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