| 单词 | on one's pins |
| 释义 | > as lemmason one's pins a. colloquial. Chiefly in plural. A leg. on one's pins: walking, up and about, in good health. shaky (also firm, etc.) on one's pins: shaky (also firm, etc.) when walking, or in one's general constitution; also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun] shanka900 legc1300 grainsa1400 limbc1400 foot?a1425 stumpa1500 pin?1515 pestlea1529 boughc1550 stamp1567 understander1583 pile1584 supporters1601 walker?1611 trestle1612 fetlock1645 pedestal1695 drumstick1770 gam1785 timber1807 tram1808–18 fork1812 prop1817 nethers1822 forkals1828 understanding1828 stick1830 nether person1835 locomotive1836 nether man1846 underpinning1848 bender1849 Scotch peg1857 Scotch1859 under-pinner1859 stem1860 Coryate's compasses1864 peg1891 wheel1927 shaft1935 ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. C.iv Than wolde I renne thyder on my pynnes As fast as I myght go. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 14 He was now altogither set on his merri pinnes and walkd on his stateli pantocles. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxi. sig. E1 His body is not set vpon nice Pinnes. 1781 J. Burgoyne Lord of Manor iii. i. 77 I never saw a fellow better set upon his pins. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 10 With all his struggling to right himself, he could not recover the use of his pins. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. viii. 60 Up with you on your pins. There! Now then! 1890 Harper's Mag. Jan. 269/2 Glad to hear that he is on his pins yet; he might have pegged out in ten years, you know. 1917 H. H. Richardson Fortunes Richard Mahony I. iv. viii. 355 Give your old pin here, and let me poultice it. 1960 M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye vii. 150 ‘Nelly's had a few,’ Humphrey said... ‘She's a bit shaky on the pins tonight.’ 1995 Sugar June 84/1 Tony reckons he's got a king pair of pins. ‘The best part of my body is my legs,’ he says not very sheepishly. < as lemmas |
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