| 单词 | as thrang as throp's wife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas thrang (also throng) as Throp's wife (when she hanged herself with the dishclout) A proverbially busy person. Chiefly in as thrang (also throng) as Throp's wife (when she hanged herself with the dishclout) and variants. Cf. throng adj. 6. ΚΠ 1762 L. Sterne Let. 31 May in Lett. 1739–64 (2009) 269 You are as busy as Throp's wife. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Thrang, busy. ‘As thrang as Throop wife, when shoe hang'd hersell in her garter,’ a proverbial simile applied to those who are very busy in trifling things. 1848 Satirist 8 July 270/3 Circumstances which..must, at least, keep his Highness ‘as throng as Thropp's wife,’ whose industry has become proverbial. 1873 J. Harland & T. T. Wilkinson Lancs. Legends v. 192 As thrunk as Throp's wife, when she hang'd hersel' in th' dish-cloot. 1898 Huddersfield Chron. 19 Feb. 3/2 Thou'rt as ill as old Throp's wife, hoo're so thrang that shoo hinged herseln i' th' dish claat. 1903 J. S. Fletcher Lucian the Dreamer iv. 46 Mr. Pepperdine, looking in upon them once or twice and noting their fervour, retired..with a remark to his elder sister that they were as throng as Throp's wife. 1922 W. Gibson Krindlesyke ii. ii. 22 I've been Cook, slut, and butler here this fifteen-year, As thrang as Throp's wife when she hanged herself With her own dishclout. 2015 @Binnibobs 13 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I have been as thrang as Throp's wife today! < as lemmas |
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