| 单词 | a cock of the same hackle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa cock of the same (also a different) hackle P2. a cock of the same (also a different) hackle and variants: a person who is very similar to (or different from) another, esp. in behaviour or attitudes. Now rare. ΚΠ 1865 C. Kingsley Hereward in Good Words 1 July 485/1 Fight it out..with a cock of a very different hackle. 1891 S. J. Weyman Story Francis Cludde iv. 40 A young fellow just your age, and a cock of your hackle, I judge, who is wanted for heresy. 1892 Penny Illustr. Paper 2 Apr. 2/2 Mr. Dalziel is a cock of a very different hackle to Mr. Frederick Smith. 1923 Times 20 June 14/2 One of Ker's favourite winter diversions at Oxford was to embark with the present Master of Balliol (a cock, in some respects, of the same hackle) in a stout gig. 1969 F. P. Wilson Eng. Drama 1485–1585 i. 36 Kirchmayer was a cock of the same hackle, and his Latin play..yields nothing to Bale in the bitterness of its polemic. < as lemmas |
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