| 单词 | mousetrap man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmousetrap man mousetrap man n. a person who makes, sells, or sets mousetraps; also figurative. ΚΠ 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre Dram. Pers. sig. A3v in Wks. II Costard-monger. Movsetrap-man. Clothier. 1683 Elegy on Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury in J. W. Draper Cent. Broadside Elegies (1928) 159 Yes, Mouse-trap-man, Thy rotten Loins lay down; Seducer of the Rabble, scorn o'th'Crown. 1710 J. Swift Hist. Vanbrugh's House in Medit. Broom-stick 29 We might expect to find next Year, A Mouse-trap Man, Chief Engineer. 1866 W. S. Gilbert Dulcamara v. (stage direct.) Air—‘The Mousetrap Man.’ 1882 Atlantic Monthly 291 The boy who brought his mahogany box and his mouse-trap to New York in 1853 sits in an office rich with plate-glass and precious woods... The mouse-trap man's wires told the news to the people of two continents. < as lemmas |
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