| 单词 | no thoroughfare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasno thoroughfare no thoroughfare: no public way through or right of way (frequently as the wording of a sign at the entrance to a pathway or street). Also figurative. Cf. no through road n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > which one may lawfully use > absence of no thoroughfare1756 no-thoroughfare1809 1756 Schofield's Middlewich Jrnl. 12 Oct. 3/1 One of them he came up with..took to an alley where there was no Thoroughfare. 1815 C. Lamb Corr. 278 Just such a cold squelch as going down a plausible turning and suddenly reading ‘No thoroughfare’. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VII xi. 70 To hint at least, ‘Here is no thoroughfare’. 1893 T. H. Huxley Sci. & Christian Trad. (1894) Pref. 8 Before me stood the thorny barrier with its comminatory noticeboard—‘No Thoroughfare. By order. Moses’. 1933 W. F. Willcox Introd. Vital Statistics U. S. vi. 13 The half century of experiment accomplished little more than to set up a ‘no thoroughfare’ sign against further effort to make a census alone yield the information needed for vital statistics. 1951 PMLA 66 1033 So short a time has elapsed since Mr. Eliot took down the sign reading ‘No Thoroughfare’, and directing an elaborate detour around Milton. 2004 O. Verkaaik Migrants & Militants iii. 88 Since there was only one entrance to the citadel and no thoroughfare, few outsiders ever visited the place. < as lemmas |
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