| 单词 | like the clappers |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike the clappers a. The tongue of a bell, which strikes it on the inside and causes it to sound. Slang phrase like the clappers: very fast or very hard. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > clapper clapper1379 swingle14.. bell-clapper1498 kneppelc1500 tongue1577 clap1608 clacker1869 jinglet1881 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > very swiftly as swift (also quick, fleet) as thought?c1225 like lightning1567 (as) quick as lightning1580 like wildfire1699 like stour1787 (as) quick as a wink1825 like smoke1832 quick as a streak1839 like sixty1848 (as) quick as thought1871 at a great lick1898 like a bat out of hell1921 like the clappers1948 like a bomb1954 1379 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 100 j lb. ferri emp. pro le claper, et aliis necessariis..pro dicta campana liganda, et factura del claper. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 13 Dombe..as..the belle, Whiche hath no clapper for to chime. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 567 Batillus, a belle clapere vel a swyngell. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 12 He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper . View more context for this quotation 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxvii. 205 A Bell, with a Steel Clapper. 1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 68 In Japan the bells never have tongues or clappers, but are always struck from without by a piece of wood. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 42 Like the clappers (of hell), very fast. Mostly R.A.F. 1957 M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More (1958) 16 It was raining like the clappers. 1958 J. Wain Contenders ix. 193 Seeing it's you, I'm going to surrender like the clappers. 1959 J. Braine Vodi ix. 128 I've got to work like the clappers this morning. < as lemmas |
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