单词 | like bingo |
释义 | > as lemmaslike bingo = bing int.; spec. an exclamation made by someone winning a game of bingo (see bingo n.2). Also in the colloquial intensive phrase like bingo: = like billy-o at billy-o n. ΚΠ 1927 E. Wallace Ringer (1952) xxiii. 93 I just laid my hands on him when—bingo! I was on the ground with four inches of good knife in me. 1931 P. G. Wodehouse If I were You xi. 125 What ensued? Bingo! Eaten by bears! 1933 M. Allingham Sweet Danger iv. 50 I just 'ad one look at 'im and came back 'ere like bingo. 1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. ii. 222 If he can't do it, I will. Do it on my head—bingo! 1958 Economist 29 Nov. 798/1 While the essential elements of the game have provided amusement and diversion for centuries, bingo was named and introduced as a modern parlour game in 1929 by a toy manufacturer, Mr. Edwin Lowe. Each player has a card with 25 numbers between 1 and 75 arranged in a square, and the first to get five in a row as the numbers are called out cries ‘bingo’. 1959 N. Marsh False Scent (1960) i. 33 I've been drinking with The Management. Only two small ones, but on an empty tum: Bingo! < as lemmas |
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