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单词 off-leg
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off-leg
a. Designating or relating to the right side of a horse, another animal, or a vehicle (opposed to the near side: see near adj. 3). Hence in compounds, as off horse (of a pair), off-foot, off-lead, off-leader, off-leg, off-ox (also figurative, a clumsy or stubborn person), off-wheel, off-wheeler. See also offside n.1 2. not to know (a person) from Adam's off-ox: not to know or recognize (someone) (at all) (see Adam n.1 Phrases 3b).
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1593 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 89 1 black cart gelding with a ringe on the offer buttocke xxxiijs. iiijd.
1674 London Gaz. No 926/4 Her off Leg before Wind-gaulled.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4477/4 His off-Knee is broke.
1764 Museum Rusticum 2 xiv. 52 To drive the cart so as the off-wheel should go in the same tract that the near wheel went in before.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 70 Enables the off-horse..to walk in the furrow.
1807 Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 25 Aug. 267 We behold a clumsy, awkward off ox trying the tricks of a kitten.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. iv. 51 I knew just the spot where to touch the off-leader.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. vii. 90 Ez to the answerin' o' questions, I'm an off ox at bein' druv.
1849 T. De Quincey Vision Sudden Death in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 750/1 With the haunch of our near leader, we had struck the off-wheel.
1880 Jackson Sentinel (Maquoketa, Iowa) 25 Mar. I didn't know him from Adam's off ox, on account of the ha'r on his face.
1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 35 Two's off-lead 'e answered to the name o' Snarleyow.
1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 25 Silver Blaze with his white forehead and his mottled off fore leg.
1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl x. 140 An iron ‘jockey-stick’ ran from the near leader's hames to the off-leader's bit.
1933 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 1 Apr. 4/3 I don't know him from Adam's (or God's) off-ox.
1980 Daily Tel. 5 June 1 (caption) With a bone in his off-fore foot fractured, Henbit is led into the winner's enclosure.
a2010 R. Aitken River of Heaven (2011) 114 I didn't know Buson from Adam's off ox, and only as I put this manuscript together did I realize that this verse..was written by Buson.
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