英语词汇“a rap on the knuckles”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. a rap on (also over, across) the knuckles: (a) a sharp blow to the knuckles, typically delivered as a punishment or reprimand; (b) figurative a rebuke, a reprimand; an adverse criticism. Cf. to rap (a person) on the knuckles at rap v.² Phrases.

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1634 Hocus Pocus Iunior sig. C4 Take him a good rap on the knuckles.

1715 ‘C. Dodd’ Secret Policy Eng. Society of Jesus 152 His Holiness himself..acquitted the appealing Clergy in a special Brief, and reprimanded the Arch Priest... You also, reverend Father, have a sensible rap over the Knuckles in the same Brief.

1800 ‘A. Pasquin’ Satires & Biogr. (title of poem) A genteel rap on the knuckles.

1851 H. Melville Redburn xi. 73 I received a rap on the knuckles from a spoon, and was told that I must help myself from my own side, for that was the rule.

1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent vii. 195 They'll have to get a hard rap on the knuckles over this affair.

1992 L. Appignanesi Memory & Desire (BNC) 345 Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Silvie had given her in the past.

2005 Asian Age 28 Sept. 19/2 He also gets a rap across the knuckles for going public in the first place... ‘Any player going to the media will face disciplinary action’.

单词	a rap on the knuckles
释义	> as lemmas a rap on (also over, across) the knuckles P1. a rap on (also over, across) the knuckles: (a) a sharp blow to the knuckles, typically delivered as a punishment or reprimand; (b) figurative a rebuke, a reprimand; an adverse criticism. Cf. to rap (a person) on the knuckles at rap v.² Phrases. ΚΠ 1634 Hocus Pocus Iunior sig. C4 Take him a good rap on the knuckles. 1715 ‘C. Dodd’ Secret Policy Eng. Society of Jesus 152 His Holiness himself..acquitted the appealing Clergy in a special Brief, and reprimanded the Arch Priest... You also, reverend Father, have a sensible rap over the Knuckles in the same Brief. 1800 ‘A. Pasquin’ Satires & Biogr. (title of poem) A genteel rap on the knuckles. 1851 H. Melville Redburn xi. 73 I received a rap on the knuckles from a spoon, and was told that I must help myself from my own side, for that was the rule. 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent vii. 195 They'll have to get a hard rap on the knuckles over this affair. 1992 L. Appignanesi Memory & Desire (BNC) 345 Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Silvie had given her in the past. 2005 Asian Age 28 Sept. 19/2 He also gets a rap across the knuckles for going public in the first place... ‘Any player going to the media will face disciplinary action’. extracted from rapn.²int. < as lemmas
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