英语词汇“off one's cake”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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†P1. (as) flat as a cake and variants: completely flat. Obsolete.Now superseded by (as) flat as a pancake at pancake n. 1b.

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a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1932) III. l. 18401 (MED) Stylle he lay, as plat a kake.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 222^v His noose as flatte as a cake bruised or beaten to his face.

1643 H. Lovel Horrid & Strange News Ireland 5 I thrust my hand at his throat, but he avoided most nimbly under my hand, and clapped himselfe flat to the wall, as flat as a cake.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. ix. 46 It [sc. a tumour]..lies round and flat as a Cake under the Jaws.

1814 Examiner 21 Aug. 533/1 An old man..cautioned me not to lean near a machine, by which they were landing horses, or I should get squeezed as flat as a cake.

1918 Life 10 Jan. 78/1 The Terrible Tank Triumphantly drank A bumper of gasoline, And left in his wake, As flat as a cake, The Sinister Submarine.

†P2. Chiefly Scottish. not worth a cake and variants: of little or no worth. Obsolete.

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a1450 in Neuphilol. Mitteilungen (1948) 49 167 (MED) Fra þy servauntes maystrys take, Þan þai counte þe noght a cake.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aii*^v Thi schore compt I noght ane caik.

c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. l. 4017 Ane knaif that is nocht worth ane caik May slay ane gude man with ane straik.

P3. In proverbial expressions.

a. to have one's cake and eat it and variants: to enjoy two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives. Chiefly in negative contexts, esp. in you can't have your cake and eat it too. Also as a modifier. Cf. to have it both ways at way n.¹ and int.¹ Phrases 1b(f).

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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Lii What man, I trowe ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?

1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 38 You can't eat your cake, & have your cake too.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 95 As ridiculous as the way of Children, who first eat their Cake, and then cry for it... They shou'd be told, as Children, that They can't eat their Cake, and have it.

1815 Duke of Wellington Let. 17 Aug. in Dispatches (1838) XII. 589 Our own government also..having got their cake, want both to eat it and keep it.

1905 McClure's Mag. 25 48 In other words, we could eat our cake and have it, too—which is one secret of high finance.

2011 Atlantic Monthly July 72/1 Ours is a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too approach, a desire for high achievement without the sacrifice and struggle that this kind of achievement often requires.

†b. Scottish and English regional (northern). every cake has its make (also mate, fellow): everything has its equal or match. Obsolete.

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a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. E3^v There never was a cake, but it had a make.

1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 68 Every cake hath its make, but a scrape-cake hath two.

1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. x. 217 There's no cake, but there's another of the same make.

P4. In combination with terms for other items of food or drink.

cakes and ale n. fun, pleasure, revelry; enjoyment of material comforts.In later use chiefly with reference or allusion to Shakespeare's use (see quot. a1616).

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 111 Dost thou thinke because thou art vertuous, there shall be no more Cakes and Ale ?

1886 Garden 5 June 519/1 The gardener's life, as a rule, is not all ‘cakes and ale’.

2019 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 July Now, let's recall that the good life isn't just cakes and ale. There's also reading and the parsing of society.

† cake and cheese n. Obsolete something consumed eagerly and with pleasure; something pleasant or easy.

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1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. F1 That's Cake and Cheese to the Countrie.

1628 J. Taylor Wit & Mirth sig. C6 Thus wit with wit agrees like cake & cheese Both sides are gainers, neither side doth lese.

† cake and gingerbread n. Obsolete something easily accomplished or dealt with; an easy or pleasant experience; cf. piece of cake n. at piece n. Phrases 15. [In quot. 1755 and in other translations of Cervantes after Spanish tortas y pan pintado (1549) in similar use.]

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1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. iii. 434 I would look upon that machine, which comes upon us, with contempt, as so much cake and gingerbread.

1800 W. Gifford Epist. to Peter Pindar (ed. 3) 57 You have received many canings..but none of them..would have been more than cakes and gingerbread to the exquisite drubbing you would have received from me.

1838 Amer. Turf. Reg. Oct. 451 This you will say is bad, but sir, it is cakes and gingerbread to the manner in which I was once served at a course in South Carolina.

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley vi. 32 The marshalling a room full of mandarins was ‘cake and gingerbread’ to ushering a Galway party in to dinner.

† cake and pudding n. (also cakes and pudding) chiefly Scottish Obsolete material reward or advantage; cf. pudding n. 5.

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1556 J. Old Confession of Catholike Olde Belefe sig. D7 Yet for cake & pudding wolde turne again (like wethercockes) which waye so euer the wynde bloweth, as a man will haue them.

1643 Bk. Pasquils 144 You courted God for caikes and pudding.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 93 He turn'd his coat for cake and pudding.

1749 Charmer: Choice Coll. Songs 92 I but owr justly trow'd Your love was thowless, and that ye For cake and pudding woo'd.

1823 W. Scott Peveril III. iii. 69 And you, Lance,..have no mind to marry for cake and pudding.

1884 J. I. Hillocks Roots & Remedies of London Misery iv, in Hard Battles for Life & Usefulness 342 We hear much about the poor attending meetings more for ‘cake and pudding’ than spiritual food; but who are most to blame, the poor or the sectarians?

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Land of Cakes n. (a humorous name for) Scotland, or (sometimes spec.) the Scottish Lowlands.With reference to sense A. 1b.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [noun]

North Britain1615

Land of Cakes1659

louse-land1699

Whigland1699

Haggisland1846

1659 in M. V. Hay Blairs Papers (1929) 178 I am in the land of cayks wher all miseryes doe sheeme to me mirth and giofulnes.

1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 219 Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots.

1888 G. Meredith Let. 27 June (1970) II. 922 Perhaps I shall never see your Land o' Cakes.

2018 National (Scotl.) (Nexis) 2 May Should the Land o' Cakes impose import duty on French gateaux?

P6. colloquial (originally U.S.). to take the cake (also †cakes): to carry off the honours, to take first place, to rank first; often used ironically in negative contexts, or as an expression of surprise. Cf. biscuit n. and adj. Phrases.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [verb (intransitive)]

to take the bun1371

to bear the bellc1374

to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531

to take the cake (also cakes)1839

to take (also cop, win) the biscuit1880

to ring the bell1900

1839 Lexington (Mississippi) Union 10 Aug. We have been shown some [cotton bolls] that we thought hard to beat, yet this takes the cakes.

1846 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 27 June 1/3 They got up a horse and $50 in money, a side,..each one to start and ride his own horse,..the winning horse take the cakes.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Sept. 5/1 As a purveyor of light literature..Mr. Norris takes the cake.

1900 T. Dreiser Sister Carrie xxiii. 249 Pack up and pull out, eh? You take the cake.

1938 G. Heyer Blunt Instrument ix. 158 I've met some kill-joys in my time, but you fairly take the cake.

2002 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. 22/6 Given the business I and my family have been in all our lives, we've seen arrogance at every level..but I must say the arrogance here takes the cake.

P7. let them eat cake and variants: used to indicate that a person is ignorant or dismissive of the hardships of others, or (sometimes) to express disregard for such hardships. Also as a modifier. [After French qu'ils mangent de la brioche (1765 in J. J. Rousseau Confessions), and frequently paraphrasing or alluding to this (compare quot. 1857). Rousseau's use reflects a probably apocryphal account of a French princess's response to being told that her impoverished subjects were unable to obtain bread. In the early 19th cent. the phrase was attributed to Marie Antoinette (see Marie Antoinette n.); earlier use of a similar phrase has been attributed to Maria Theresa of Spain (1638–83), wife of King Louis XIV, but again without supporting evidence.]

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1857 Charleston (S. Carolina) Mercury 17 Oct. If, as the papers say, these working classes are likely to get out of bread, why, let them eat cake.

1937 P. G. Wodehouse in Sat. Evening Post 24 Aug. 46/2 You don't have to worry about Lord Abbott. Let him eat cake. You just follow the dictates of your heart and go right ahead and marry the girl.

2011 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 29 Jan. a25 What really annoyed me was the haughty, ‘let them eat cake’ attitude that was so very pervasive in his letter.

P8. British colloquial (originally English regional). off one's cake.

a. Having lost control of one's mental faculties; out of one's mind; deranged, crazy, mad.

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1881 G. Massey Bk. of Beginnings I. iii. 121 ‘He's off his Cake’ is a provincial phrase, explained as meaning he's off his head. It signifies he's loose-witted, out of bounds.

1981 W. Russell Educating Rita i. ii. 12 When I was a kid I always wanted to go to a boardin' school... I told me mother once... She said I was off me cake.

2018 Belfast Tel. Online (Nexis) 6 Oct. I don't like the hustle and bustle... To..live in a city with noise, I would just go off my cake.

b. Extremely intoxicated by alcohol or drugs.

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1987 Gay Times Apr. 44/3 I..had to get tanked up before going anywhere... Fran the good laugh, always off her cake,..that was the woman people got to know.

1990 Independent 29 June 15/8 We raved all night on Saturday... I was completely and happily off my cake.., rocking in front of the speakers to the heavy reggae.

2015 @danny_buckley_ 13 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 12 May 2020) The London Gin Club. Recommended. I'm absolutely off my cake.

P9. baked in the cake: see bake v. Phrases 3; one's cake is dough: see dough n. Phrases; the frosting on the cake: see frosting n. 3b; like hot cakes: see hot cake n. 2; the icing on the cake: see icing n. Phrases; piece of cake: see piece n. Phrases 15; to hurry up the cakes and variants: see to hurry up the (also one's) cakes at hurry v. Additions.

单词	off one's cake
释义	> as lemmas off one's cake Phrases †P1. (as) flat as a cake and variants: completely flat. Obsolete.Now superseded by (as) flat as a pancake at pancake n. 1b. ΚΠ a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1932) III. l. 18401 (MED) Stylle he lay, as plat a kake. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 222^v His noose as flatte as a cake bruised or beaten to his face. 1643 H. Lovel Horrid & Strange News Ireland 5 I thrust my hand at his throat, but he avoided most nimbly under my hand, and clapped himselfe flat to the wall, as flat as a cake. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. ix. 46 It [sc. a tumour]..lies round and flat as a Cake under the Jaws. 1814 Examiner 21 Aug. 533/1 An old man..cautioned me not to lean near a machine, by which they were landing horses, or I should get squeezed as flat as a cake. 1918 Life 10 Jan. 78/1 The Terrible Tank Triumphantly drank A bumper of gasoline, And left in his wake, As flat as a cake, The Sinister Submarine. †P2. Chiefly Scottish. not worth a cake and variants: of little or no worth. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1450 in Neuphilol. Mitteilungen (1948) 49 167 (MED) Fra þy servauntes maystrys take, Þan þai counte þe noght a cake. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aii^v Thi schore compt I noght ane caik. c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander* (1921) II. ii. l. 4017 Ane knaif that is nocht worth ane caik May slay ane gude man with ane straik. P3. In proverbial expressions. a. to have one's cake and eat it and variants: to enjoy two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives. Chiefly in negative contexts, esp. in you can't have your cake and eat it too. Also as a modifier. Cf. to have it both ways at way n.¹ and int.¹ Phrases 1b(f). ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Lii What man, I trowe ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake? 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 38 You can't eat your cake, & have your cake too. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 95 As ridiculous as the way of Children, who first eat their Cake, and then cry for it... They shou'd be told, as Children, that They can't eat their Cake, and have it. 1815 Duke of Wellington Let. 17 Aug. in Dispatches (1838) XII. 589 Our own government also..having got their cake, want both to eat it and keep it. 1905 McClure's Mag. 25 48 In other words, we could eat our cake and have it, too—which is one secret of high finance. 2011 Atlantic Monthly July 72/1 Ours is a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too approach, a desire for high achievement without the sacrifice and struggle that this kind of achievement often requires. †b. Scottish and English regional (northern). every cake has its make (also mate, fellow): everything has its equal or match. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. E3^v There never was a cake, but it had a make. 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 68 Every cake hath its make, but a scrape-cake hath two. 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. x. 217 There's no cake, but there's another of the same make. P4. In combination with terms for other items of food or drink. a. cakes and ale n. fun, pleasure, revelry; enjoyment of material comforts.In later use chiefly with reference or allusion to Shakespeare's use (see quot. a1616). ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 111 Dost thou thinke because thou art vertuous, there shall be no more Cakes and Ale ? View more context for this quotation 1886 Garden 5 June 519/1 The gardener's life, as a rule, is not all ‘cakes and ale’. 2019 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 July Now, let's recall that the good life isn't just cakes and ale. There's also reading and the parsing of society. b. † cake and cheese n. Obsolete something consumed eagerly and with pleasure; something pleasant or easy. ΚΠ 1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. F1 That's Cake and Cheese to the Countrie. 1628 J. Taylor Wit & Mirth sig. C6 Thus wit with wit agrees like cake & cheese Both sides are gainers, neither side doth lese. c. † cake and gingerbread n. Obsolete something easily accomplished or dealt with; an easy or pleasant experience; cf. piece of cake n. at piece n. Phrases 15. [In quot. 1755 and in other translations of Cervantes after Spanish tortas y pan pintado (1549) in similar use.] ΚΠ 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. iii. 434 I would look upon that machine, which comes upon us, with contempt, as so much cake and gingerbread. 1800 W. Gifford Epist. to Peter Pindar (ed. 3) 57 You have received many canings..but none of them..would have been more than cakes and gingerbread to the exquisite drubbing you would have received from me. 1838 Amer. Turf. Reg. Oct. 451 This you will say is bad, but sir, it is cakes and gingerbread to the manner in which I was once served at a course in South Carolina. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley vi. 32 The marshalling a room full of mandarins was ‘cake and gingerbread’ to ushering a Galway party in to dinner. d. † cake and pudding n. (also cakes and pudding) chiefly Scottish Obsolete material reward or advantage; cf. pudding n. 5. ΚΠ 1556 J. Old Confession of Catholike Olde Belefe sig. D7 Yet for cake & pudding wolde turne again (like wethercockes) which waye so euer the wynde bloweth, as a man will haue them. 1643 Bk. Pasquils 144 You courted God for caikes and pudding. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 93 He turn'd his coat for cake and pudding. 1749 Charmer: Choice Coll. Songs 92 I but owr justly trow'd Your love was thowless, and that ye For cake and pudding woo'd. 1823 W. Scott Peveril III. iii. 69 And you, Lance,..have no mind to marry for cake and pudding. 1884 J. I. Hillocks Roots & Remedies of London Misery iv, in Hard Battles for Life & Usefulness 342 We hear much about the poor attending meetings more for ‘cake and pudding’ than spiritual food; but who are most to blame, the poor or the sectarians? P5. Land of Cakes n. (a humorous name for) Scotland, or (sometimes spec.) the Scottish Lowlands.With reference to sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [noun] North Britain1615 Land of Cakes1659 louse-land1699 Whigland1699 Haggisland1846 1659 in M. V. Hay Blairs Papers (1929) 178 I am in the land of cayks wher all miseryes doe sheeme to me mirth and giofulnes. 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 219 Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots. 1888 G. Meredith Let. 27 June (1970) II. 922 Perhaps I shall never see your Land o' Cakes. 2018 National (Scotl.) (Nexis) 2 May Should the Land o' Cakes impose import duty on French gateaux? P6. colloquial (originally U.S.). to take the cake (also †cakes): to carry off the honours, to take first place, to rank first; often used ironically in negative contexts, or as an expression of surprise. Cf. biscuit n. and adj. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [verb (intransitive)] to take the bun1371 to bear the bellc1374 to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531 to take the cake (also cakes)1839 to take (also cop, win) the biscuit1880 to ring the bell1900 1839 Lexington (Mississippi) Union 10 Aug. We have been shown some [cotton bolls] that we thought hard to beat, yet this takes the cakes. 1846 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 27 June 1/3 They got up a horse and $50 in money, a side,..each one to start and ride his own horse,..the winning horse take the cakes. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Sept. 5/1 As a purveyor of light literature..Mr. Norris takes the cake. 1900 T. Dreiser Sister Carrie xxiii. 249 Pack up and pull out, eh? You take the cake. 1938 G. Heyer Blunt Instrument ix. 158 I've met some kill-joys in my time, but you fairly take the cake. 2002 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. 22/6 Given the business I and my family have been in all our lives, we've seen arrogance at every level..but I must say the arrogance here takes the cake. P7. let them eat cake and variants: used to indicate that a person is ignorant or dismissive of the hardships of others, or (sometimes) to express disregard for such hardships. Also as a modifier. [After French qu'ils mangent de la brioche (1765 in J. J. Rousseau Confessions), and frequently paraphrasing or alluding to this (compare quot. 1857). Rousseau's use reflects a probably apocryphal account of a French princess's response to being told that her impoverished subjects were unable to obtain bread. In the early 19th cent. the phrase was attributed to Marie Antoinette (see Marie Antoinette n.); earlier use of a similar phrase has been attributed to Maria Theresa of Spain (1638–83), wife of King Louis XIV, but again without supporting evidence.] ΚΠ 1857 Charleston (S. Carolina) Mercury 17 Oct. If, as the papers say, these working classes are likely to get out of bread, why, let them eat cake. 1937 P. G. Wodehouse in Sat. Evening Post 24 Aug. 46/2 You don't have to worry about Lord Abbott. Let him eat cake. You just follow the dictates of your heart and go right ahead and marry the girl. 2011 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 29 Jan. a25 What really annoyed me was the haughty, ‘let them eat cake’ attitude that was so very pervasive in his letter. P8. British colloquial (originally English regional). off one's cake. a. Having lost control of one's mental faculties; out of one's mind; deranged, crazy, mad. ΚΠ 1881 G. Massey Bk. of Beginnings I. iii. 121 ‘He's off his Cake’ is a provincial phrase, explained as meaning he's off his head. It signifies he's loose-witted, out of bounds. 1981 W. Russell Educating Rita i. ii. 12 When I was a kid I always wanted to go to a boardin' school... I told me mother once... She said I was off me cake. 2018 Belfast Tel. Online (Nexis) 6 Oct. I don't like the hustle and bustle... To..live in a city with noise, I would just go off my cake. b. Extremely intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. ΚΠ 1987 Gay Times Apr. 44/3 I..had to get tanked up before going anywhere... Fran the good laugh, always off her cake,..that was the woman people got to know. 1990 Independent 29 June 15/8 We raved all night on Saturday... I was completely and happily off my cake.., rocking in front of the speakers to the heavy reggae. 2015 @danny_buckley_ 13 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 12 May 2020) The London Gin Club. Recommended. I'm absolutely off my cake. P9. baked in the cake: see bake v. Phrases 3; one's cake is dough: see dough n. Phrases; the frosting on the cake: see frosting n. 3b; like hot cakes: see hot cake n. 2; the icing on the cake: see icing n. Phrases; piece of cake: see piece n. Phrases 15; to hurry up the cakes and variants: see to hurry up the (also one's) cakes at hurry v. Additions. extracted from caken.adj. < as lemmas
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