单词 | how are the bots biting? |
释义 | > as lemmashow are the bots biting? colloquial (New Zealand and Australian). how are the bots biting?: (as a greeting) ‘How are you?’ ‘How's it going?’Cf. sense 4b. ΚΠ 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 83/2 Bots biting?, how are the, how are you?: New Zealand medical: from ca. 1929. 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 52 The phrase of greeting, How are the bots biting? 1995 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Feb. (Weekend Suppl.) 67 G'day. Or should that be ‘How ya goin' mate?’ Or, perhaps, ‘How are the bots biting?’ < as lemmas |
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