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单词 a big thing on ice
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a big thing on ice
c. U.S. slang (now historical). a big thing on ice: a good thing (also on ice).
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1861 N.Y. Herald 24 Jan. 8/6 The Greatest Skating Excitement of the Season... At night the cry was not ‘Great is Diana’, but ‘Big thing on ice is calciums’. A calcium light was placed at each end of the upper pond.
1862 Tony Pastor's Comic & Eccentric Songster 20 A Big Thing on Ice. Comic Song. Written and Sung by Tony Pastor. Air—‘Bow-wow-wow’.
1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody xx. 231 In the hall, prominently posted up by a wag, under new memberships, is a notice: For Election. Gussie de P. Van Beekman, vice Baron Bassington, of Harrowby Castle, England. On ice!
1979 J. T. Dunn St. Croix xviii. 225 Pilot Jack Kent felt that the boat was a ‘big thing on ice’.
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