单词 | neither hide nor hair |
释义 | > as lemmasneither hide nor hair b. In collocation with hair, esp. in (in) hide and hair: wholly, entirely; neither hide nor hair: nothing whatever. (So Dutch huid en haar.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] high and low1397 every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400 root and rind?a1400 hair and hide?c1450 stout and routc1450 bane and routc1480 overthwart and endlonga1500 (in) hide and hairc1575 right out1578 horse and footc1600 flesh and fella1616 root and branch1640 stab and stow1680 stoop and roop1728 stick, stock, stone dead1796 rump and stump1824 stump and rump1825 rump and rig1843 good and1885 the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > nothing > nothing at all noughtOE neither tip nor toe1610 nix1781 damn the haet1787 no nothing1815 zero1823 all1842 neither hide nor hair1857 zip1900 nixie1906 damn all1910 fuck-all1916 Fanny Adams1919 bugger-all1921 S.F.A.1933 not a sausage1938 shit1949 zilch1956 eff-all1958 sod all1958 diddly-squat1963 diddly1964 jack-all1965 niente1969 zippo1973 feck-all1975 hee-haw1975 naff all1977 jack squat1986 c1330 [see sense 2a]. c1480 (a1400) St. Adrian 514 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 286 Wnuemmyt in hyd ore hare. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 950 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 124 Yis howlat hidowis of haire & of hyde. c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 523 He sall exhibite the samin..cattel, in hyde and hair, at ane certane day and place. 1857 J. G. Holland Bay-path xxv. 303 I havn't seen hide nor hair of the piece ever since. < as lemmas |
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