| 单词 | a basket of chips |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa basket of chips b. a basket of chips, used allusively in comparisons. Chiefly U.S. ΚΠ 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Basket..He grins like a basket of chips; a saying of one who is on the broad grin. 1806 Spirit of Public Jrnls. (Baltimore) 115 She smiled like a basket of chips. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress 25 On which the whole Populace flash'd the white grin Like a basket of chips. 1827 Massachusetts Spy 28 Nov. The Yankee will say of a young lady, ‘She is a real pretty girl, but she is as homely as a basket of chips.’ 1878 R. T. Cooke Happy Dodd xxvi. They'll make up to-night, and she'll be as pleasant as a basket of chips. 1892 Congress. Rec. Mar. 2367/1 My ticket was handed to me at once and the seller looked as pleasant as a basket of chips. 1938 Amer. Speech 13 74/1 As illustrations of the type of expression familiar to me in Ohio, I may list..‘polite as a basket of chips’. < as lemmas |
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