| 单词 | last across |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslast across (the road) a. last across (the road): a children's game in which players try to be the last to cross a road (or railway) safely in front of an approaching vehicle (or train); also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist ix. 230 If it seems good to them [sc. children] to play at ‘last across’, you had better go very gingerly in their neighbourhood. 1914 ‘I. Hay’ Knight on Wheels xi. 108 A frisky calf, encountered by the way, almost wrecked its own prospects of ever becoming veal by an untimely indulgence in the game of ‘Come to Mother, or Last Across the Road’. 1928 Sunday Disp. 15 July 11/3 Socialist back-benchers are playing a dangerous game of ‘last across’ with Mr. Speaker—just seeing how far they can go at question time without being ‘named’. 1957 Times 12 Mar. 4/6 Engine drivers are threatening to refuse to drive trains over a section of track..because children are using it for a game of ‘last across’. 1958 R. Liddell Morea ii. iv. 103 Chickens seemed to be playing ‘last across the road’;..dogs tried to meet us head on. 1994 N. Bawden In my own Time (1995) ii. 18 From six or seven we all walked unaccompanied;..pulling faces at houses where we suspected people watched us from behind their curtains, and, when we reached the main road, playing Last Across. < as lemmas |
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