| 单词 | a kettle of fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa kettle of fish 2. Phrase. a kettle of fish. extracted from kettlen. a. On the Tweed, etc. A kettle of fish cooked al fresco, at a boating excursion or picnic; hence, applied to the picnic itself. Also simply kettle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > picnic or packed meal > [noun] picnic1748 tea-treatc1748 a kettle of fish1791 scram1831 picnic meal1839 box supper1851 basket-meeting1859 picnic lunch1865 picnic tea1869 school feast1879 basket picnic1882 box lunch1889 basket dinner1892 basket lunch1905 packed lunch1906 sack lunch1972 brown-bag lunch1976 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > fish dishes > [noun] gyngawdry?c1390 salomenec1430 sorréc1430 tavorsayc1450 spitchcock1601 minnow tansy1655 kedgeree1662 pepperpot1698 matelote1723 water-souchy1726 pitchcock1739 flibrigo1762 twice-laid1777 ngapi1800 a kettle of fish1823 brandade1825 fish supper1829 truite au bleu1834 sole (à la) Colbert1846 bouillabaisse1855 fish and chips1876 hákarl1879 sashimi1880 timbale1880 gefilte fish1892 stamp and go1893 truite bleue1907 waterzooi1915 accra1919 Bismarck herring1931 gravlax1935 goujon1940 coddie1941 seviche1951 tuna salad1953 crabstick1956 zarzuela1956 sole Véronique1960 fish finger1962 moqueca1980 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 394 It is customary for the gentlemen who live near the Tweed to entertain their neighbours and friends with a Fete Champetre, which they call giving ‘a kettle of fish’. Tents or marquees are pitched near the flowery banks of the river..a fire is kindled, and live salmon thrown into boiling kettles. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. xii. 283 The whole company go to the water-side to-day to eat a kettle of fish. 1881 A. Carter in Picturesque Scot. 111 A ‘kettle’ in Berwick parlance is a picnic party with this specialty about it that fish is the chief thing consumed, and this fish is salmon taken out of the river..and cooked upon the spot. b. Usually with adjective ironically, as pretty kettle, fine kettle, nice kettle, rare kettle (†also simply a fine kettle): A mess, muddle, disagreeable or awkward state of things. Also, a different or another kettle of fish: a different state of affairs, a different matter altogether. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things hard casec1325 box1546 pass1560 little-ease1589 a fine kettle1741 mess1812 how-do-you-do1835 hot mess1867 bed of nails1872 shitter1958 strife1963 the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > a different matter or state of affairs a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530 a different (also another) story1688 something else1844 another pair of shoes1861 a different or another kettle of fish1937 a different cup of tea1940 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 308 He has made a fine Kettle on't,—han't he! 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xi. 74 ‘Here's a pretty Kettle of Fish,’ cries Mrs. Tow-wouse. View more context for this quotation 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. viii. 225 Fine Doings at my House! A rare Kettle of Fish I have discovered at last. View more context for this quotation 1800 Duke of Wellington Let. to Close 2 Oct. in Dispatches (1837) I. 245 If so, we shall have a fine kettle of fish at Seringapatam. 1820 Countess Granville Let. 7 Oct. (1894) I. 184 Ministers are in a nice kettle of fish, to be sure. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. iv. 21 Your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools. 1937 Discovery Nov. 353/1 H. S. Thompson's ‘Garnet in Flight’ is another kettle of fish. 1938 R. Warner Professor vi. 141 Professor..you're very good at thinking out schemes—brainwork, I mean..if you understand what I mean; but that's only half the battle you know, in fact a different kettle of fish altogether. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 172 Until now the word ‘Colonel’ for Basil had connoted an elderly rock-gardener on Barbara's G.P.O. list. This formidable man of his own age was another kettle of fish. 1962 J. L. Austin's Sense & Sensibilia ii. 14 Looking..at a distant village on a very clear day across a valley, is a very different kettle of fish from seeing a ghost. < as lemmas |
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