| 单词 | halfpenny under the hat |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalfpenny under the hat halfpenny under the hat n. a gambling game in which players must guess whether a halfpenny hidden under a hat is heads or tails up.Apparently only with reference to, or in allusion to, Plate 3 of William Hogarth's Industry and Idleness, ‘The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, during Divine Service’ (1747), in which a young man is depicted playing such a game. ΘΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun] even or odd1538 love1585 Jack-in-the-box?1593 under-hat1629 pluck-penny1643 morra1659 catch-dolt1674 shuffle-cap1712 fair chance1723 E O1751 teetotum1753 rondo1821 cut-throat1823 hop-my-fool1824 odds and evens1841 spin-'em-round1851 halfpenny under the hat1853 racehorses1853 fan-tan1878 tan1883 pakapoo1886 legality1888 petits chevaux1891 pai gow1906 boule1911 put and take1921 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists v. 225 Tom lies on a tomb-stone outside playing at halfpenny-under-the-hat, with street blackguards. 1879 A. Dobson Hogarth vi. 66 There is no finer stroke in Hogarth than that by which the miserable player at ‘halfpenny-under-the hat,’..is shown to have but a plank between him and the grave. 1955 Times 19 Dec. 7/4 Naughty boys, who ought to have been in church, were known to sit on tombstones playing halfpenny-under-the-hat. < as lemmas |
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