| 单词 | lock, stock, and barrel |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslock, stock, and barrel Phrases P1. under lock and keyand variants: securely locked up (cf. key n.1 and adj. Phrases 1). Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > perfectly safe [phrase] > in a secure place in one's bosomc1175 under lock and keya1393 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > in confinement [phrase] in mewa1375 under keya1393 under lock and key1585 behind bars1951 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 6621 (MED) Danger..under lock and under keie, That noman mai it stele aweie, Hath al the Tresor underfonge. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 17411 Ioseph..ȝe lokid vnder lock and sele. 1570 Mariage Witte & Sci. ii. i. sig. Bii Althinges must be kept vnder locke and haspe. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxi. f. 154 With great care [they] kept their wyues so closely vnder lock and key. 1602 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 48 The conveiances and the evidencies..be put into a colfer under the lockes and keys. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 107 Keep close your Women, under Lock and Key: But, who shall keep those Keepers? 1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. IX. ii. 53/2 An exact inventory of..all the tackle of the ships, to be conveyed into the emperor's warehouse, there to be kept under lock and seal. 1796 A. Lindsay in B. Edwards Proc. Maroon Negroes 35 Until such time as these quick-silver rebels are under lock and key. 1825 J. S. Buckingham Trav. among Arab Tribes xvi. 321 All the apartments of his residence..were instantly secured with bolts and bars, and placed under lock and seal. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 62 Under lock and key, in the..store room. 1895 Idler July 749 If all were known, maybe more than one of his acts would get him under key and lock. 1937 M. Allingham Case of Late Pig viii. 55 Lumme, Inspector, I 'ope your 'elmet's under lock and key. 1967 Louisiana Hist. 8 366 During the interim all the valuables and furnishings were put under lock and seal—the wax seals of M. Sirebeau. 2009 M. Da Silva & A. Hind Ghosts of Niagara-on-the-Lake xi. 108 To townsfolk, having an adult living under lock and key seemed abnormal. P2. under (†a or †one's) lock: securely locked up; in (one's) safekeeping. [Compare Anglo-Norman desuz loc (1352 or earlier). ΚΠ ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 89 (MED) Þare es na thing vnder lokk, and als riche es a man as anoþer. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 373 (MED) Kepenge hit with grete diligence vnder a locke. 1612 S. Daniel First Pt. Hist. Eng. i. 56 The wife, vnlesse the thing stolne, were found vnder her locke, should not be guilty of her husbands offence. 1685 W. Clark Grand Tryal xxiv.196 Yet are their minds not pleas'd, Until they have these Wretches in the tail, And either under lock, or under bail. 1715 Persecution Expos'd 151 While we were kept there under lock, we could not do it. 1849 J. W. Marston Strathmore ii. i. 19 To hear them talk this morning! One would guess They'd King and country under lock. 1889 Missionary Rev. of World Dec. 912 They were..such thieves that she could leave nothing except under lock. 1906 C. L. Marlatt & W. A. Orton Control of Codling Moth & Apple Scab (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 247) 12 All packages, boxes, or bottles containing these materials should be plainly labeled and kept under lock. 1991 Cruising World Nov. 36/3 Foreign boats could have guns impounded or could be required to secure them under lock while in port. 2011 J. Dixon Beaten, Seared & Sauced 149 I..got some of the black steel pans used for making this dish that Smythe kept under lock by his desk. a. In a wrestling hold. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [phrase] to blear the eyesc1325 to play mock-holiday with?1558 on a lock1598 to put the change upon (also on) (a person)1658 to play false1680 to draw (pull, spread) the wool over (a person's) eyes1839 to lead (a person) up the garden (path)1923 to pull a fastie1931 to take (someone) for a sleigh ride1931 to pull a swiftie1945 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > disadvantageously [phrase] > to the disadvantage of > at a disadvantage on also upon the hip?c1225 on a lock1598 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [adverb] > at grips on a lock1598 in holds1891 1598At the locke [see sense 17]. 1744 P. Whitehead Gymnasiad iii. 30 (note) The youthful Hero being on the Lock, must again inevitably have come to the Ground. b. figurative. (a) At a disadvantage, in a difficulty or dilemma. ΚΠ 1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience xiii. 96 If the Devill catcheth us at this lock, he will throw us flat. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 41 At that lock they often were, and some good Planters too, that far'd very hard. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 216 Now the Author having got them at this lock cries Victory. 1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 39 My inclination is..that you keep the books to yourself rather than put the Colonel upon the lock. (b) Engaged in a stratagem or trick. ΚΠ 1650 O. Cromwell Let. 4 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1939) (modernized text) II. 322 Being indeed upon this lock,—hoping that the sickness of your army would render their work more easy. 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. iv. iv. 43 Why look you, Colonel, he's at's old lock, he's at's May-bees again. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xv. 213 He was now upon the same lock with Balbinus. lock-all-fast n. Criminals' slang Obsolete rare a receiver of stolen goods. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Lock all fast, one that Buys and Conceals Stolen Goods. ΚΠ 1725 New Canting Dict. s.v. He stood a queer Lock; i.e. He stood an indifferent Chance. ΚΠ 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 128 What lock do you cut now? [explained to mean ‘by what way do you get your livelihood now?’ xv. 150]. P7. lock, stock, and barrel (also more rarely stock, lock, and barrel).In early evidence in figurative contexts, with reference to the parts of a gun (cf. sense 5). a. As a whole; entirely, completely. ΚΠ 1817 W. Scott Let. 29 Oct. (1933) V. 4 Like the High-landman's gun, she wants stock, lock, and barrel, to put her into repair. 1855 S. A. Hammett Wonderful Adventures Captain Priest xii. 76 He sold off his feathered stock, ‘lock, stock, and barrel’. 1905 Times 7 July 10/3 [Sir George White said:] He was not a Scotsman; he was..lock, stock, and barrel an Irishman. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze xii. 292 One of the ministries would take over lock, stock and barrel the administration. 2014 Aberdeen Evening Press (Nexis) 3 Feb. 24 We have already sold our soul, lock stock and barrel, to the oil industry. b. The totality or entirety of something; (hence attributive) all-inclusive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot every whita1450 every stitch?a1500 the devil and all1543 prow and poop1561 Christ-cross-row1579 every snip1598 thread and thrum1600 boodle1625 hair and hoof1705 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 tutti quanti1772 lot1791 lock, stock, and barrel1824 stock and fluke1825 the whole boiling1837 box and dice1839 the whole caboodlea1848 sub-cheese1859 the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859 the whole jingbang1866 the whole hypothec1871 the whole ball of wax1882 the whole (entire) shoot1884 (at) every whip-stitch1888 work1899 issue1919 guntz1958 full monty1979 1824 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 7 Apr. Congress are in possession of the flint, powder, gun, lock, stock and barrel, and still we exclaim with the old lady, take away the musket. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed v. 80 The whole thing, lock, stock, and barrel, isn't worth one big yellow sea-poppy. 1908 Brit. Homeopathic Jrnl. Oct. 338 The same old profession in spite of renewals in lock, stock, and barrel. 1999 F1 Racing Nov. 51/2 ‘I will remain as chairman..’, he says, before rattling off his views about his team's lock-stock-and-barrel sale to Ford. P8. locks and keys n. chiefly English regional (midlands and southern) (in plural) the seeds of certain trees, such as the ash, sycamore, or maple, which resemble a key in shape; cf. key n.1 13. ΚΠ 1831 L. E. Landon Romance & Reality III. xvi. 277 High above stood the ash-tree, its boughs covered with the toy-like bunches called ‘locks and keys’. 1837 J. F. Palmer Gloss. in M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. Locks-and-Keys, the seed-pods of the ash and sycamore. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Locks-and-keys. Ash-keys. West. 1913 G. C. Nuttall Trees & how they Grow 69 All through the summer its fruits have been forming... They hang in great bunches—‘Ash Keys’..‘Cats and Keys’, ‘Locks and Keys’, are country names for them. 1939 E. Carr Jrnl. 14 Sept. in Hundreds & Thousands (2006) 406 The old rusted ‘locks and keys’ jangle in a whisper above the maple. ΚΠ 1833 Jrnl. Health Feb. 175 Before he well understood her purpose, she rose, and passed her arm within his. This action seemed to dissolve the spell which had fallen upon the female tongues; but among the few phrases that reached her, still fewer were intelligible... ‘Lock and lock, I declare! thank the praise, I was born in America.’ 1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. (ed. 2) xxiii. 241 She don't wait any more for him to walk lock and lock with her. 1852 W. G. Simms As Good as Comedy vii. 99 The next moment found her, lock and lock, in affectionate embrace with the high-spirited and aristocratic beauty. P10. lock and block n. a system of railway signalling in which a train is prevented, by means of a locked signal, from entering a section of line occupied by another train; also attributive, as lock and block system, lock and block signalling, etc.; cf. block system n. at block n. 19c. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system block system1864 lock and block1872 signalling1873 1872 Scotsman 7 Nov. 3/2 Captain Tyler considers the adoption of the lock and block systems essential only on certain classes of railways. 1894 N.Y. Times 25 June 4/4 Mr. O'Donnell favors a combination of ‘lock and block’ which will make it impossible for the outside signals to be lowered excepting when the line is clear. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 12 Jan. 7/2 The failure was partly due to faulty line circuits of the lock and block instruments. 1956 Railway Mag. Nov. 748/1 The Sykes lock-and-block, although old fashioned,..has a long record of reliable service in the operation of dense traffic. 1978 G. M. Kichenside & A. Williams Brit. Railway Signalling (ed. 4) iv. 39 On some lines where lock-and-block signalling is used, the signal post carries a white diamond-shaped plate..indicating to the crew that the signal is exempt from rule K3. 2003 M. C. Duffy Electric Railways 1880–1990 i. 8 Lock and block was developed using mechanical and electromechanical locking. P11. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). to have (also get, keep, etc.) a lock on (something): (a) (originally) to be certain to win or gain (something); (b) (now chiefly) to have a secure hold on, total control over, or a monopoly on (something). Cf. sense 24. ΚΠ 1924 Washington Post 19 Apr. (Sports section) 2/6 The Cosden-Parr confederacy appear to have a lock on the opener with Bother and Cloudland. 1964 San Antonio (Texas) Light 25 Jan. 10/1 The victory enabled Lee to keep a lock on the district lead with six wins in as many starts. 1972 N.Y. Times 17 Dec. 60/3 Vice President Agnew..might get a lock on the nomination long before the 1976 convention. 1984 Pop. Mech. Feb. 56 c/2 The Russians think they have a lock on the world caviar market. 1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 6 Apr. 22 a As in any controversy, no side has a lock on the truth. 2007 B. Mulroney Memoirs iv. iv. 314 The Liberals (who had had a lock on government for the previous twenty-one years) had over time acquired an ease with the leading bureaucrats. P12. U.S. slang. to get (also have, keep, etc.) (something) on lock: (originally in the language of hip hop) to control or dominate (a situation, person, etc.); to have mastery of or be assured of success in (an activity or endeavour). [Apparently short for on lockdown at lockdown n. 2a. ΚΠ 1991 ‘Main Source’ Live at Barbeque (transcript of song) in www.lyricsfreak.com (O.E.D. Archive) Don't be misled, I keep rappers on lock like a dread. 1998 Washington Post 23 Dec. (Style section) c3/2 ‘Hip-hop,’ notes Washington, ‘has got pop culture on lock.’ 2001 Chicago Defender 3 Nov. 25 They've got the South on lock with their mesmerizing musical madness. 2004 Tense Dec. 84/1 At times Snoop's laidback style leaves you feeling a lil' too relaxed but still manages to keep it on lock. 2008 E. Rhodes Street Vengeance 81 She had it on lock... Nothing moved in the area if she didn't move it or give the word on it. 2014 Thug Kitchen p. xxvii The last thing anybody needs is another book..telling you how to cook meat. Clearly you got that shit on lock. < as lemmas |
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