| 单词 | in meal or in malt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin meal or in malt c. Contrasted with malt (see malt n.1 2a): food (as opposed to drink). Now figurative in in meal or in malt and variants: in one form or another. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > edible material or part victualc1374 meat?a1425 mealc1547 esculent1633 edible1661 edule1699 scran1808 c1547 Vox Populi i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. II. 401 Nother malte nor meale,..mylke nor kele. c1572 G. Gascoigne Fruites Warre in Wks. (1907) I. 171 Here with we had..Nor meale, nor malt, nor meane..to get such geare if once we should be shut. 1698 J. Dunton Let. in MS Rawl. D. 71 v. f. 19 One [pox] had disfigured his face, and curing the other had emaciated his body, and you'l say with me yt such an one might verie well endeavour wth meale to compensate for the deficiencies of his mault. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 119 For meal and mawt thou disna want. 1881 W. Gregor Notes Folk-lore N.-E. Scotl. 161 We sing for meal, we sing for maut. 1892 19th Cent. Aug. 344 If they [sc. the Unionists] wish to get the working-class vote they have got to pay for it, either in meal or in malt. 1940 W. S. Churchill in Second World War (1949) II. ii. xxvii. 477 I am much obliged to you for telegraphing..to General Wavell. He must provide in meal or in malt: (a) Three or four thousand additional British troops and a dozen guns [etc.]. 1973 R. E. Megarry Second Miscellany-at-law iii. 247 The familiar forensic phrase ‘in meal or in malt’ is old in the law. < as lemmas |
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