| 单词 | as savage as a meat-axe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas savage (or wicked) as a meat-axe 2. literal. An implement with a heavy blade used for cutting meat; a butcher's cleaver. as savage (or wicked) as a meat-axe (U.S. regional): vicious, dangerous; (of a person) very angry. Cf. as mad as a meat axe at mad adj. Phrases 2i. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > cleaver chopping-knife1552 cleaver1580 chopper1818 meat-axe1834 mezzaluna1954 1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major 185 Its helve is of hickory—in Kentucky parlance, ‘is as savage as a meat-axe’. 1835 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 1st Ser. 237 She was..as wicked as a meat-axe. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xxxix. 106 You couldn't kill her with a meat-axe. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. xiii. 198 I looked as savage as a meat-axe. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 266 Meat Axe, a cleaver. 1861 N.Y. Herald 16 Feb. 3/5 During this controversy the Governor looked as savage as a meat axe. 1862 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 584 I..took hold of my meat-axe. 1941 J. Masefield Gautama the Enlightened 21 The sides of beef still dangle from the hooks; The meat-axe chops for critic-witted cooks. 1999 Toronto Sun (Electronic ed.) 19 Aug. 44 The boy had become frustrated with his father's drunken abuse and murdered him with a meat axe. < as lemmas |
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