| 单词 | on the town |
| 释义 | > as lemmasupon (also on) the town Phrases P1. to come to town: to make an appearance, to arrive. Formerly also: †to become established, to become common (obsolete). Cf. to come to land at land n.1 Phrases 1c.Originally with reference to sense 3b, later reinterpreted as showing sense 4. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach a point or place [verb (intransitive)] > arrive comeOE to come to townOE yworthOE lend11.. lightc1225 to come anovenonc1275 wina1300 'rivec1300 repaira1325 applyc1384 to come ina1399 rede?a1400 arrivec1400 attainc1400 alightc1405 to come to handc1450 unto-comec1450 apport1578 to be along1597 to drop in1609 to come ona1635 to walk in1656 land1679 engage1686 to come along1734 to get in1863 to turn up1870 to fall in1900 to lob1916 to roll up1920 to breeze in1930 to rock up1975 the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > deprive of refinement [verb (intransitive)] > be or become vulgar to come to town1600 vulgarize1605 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > behave badly [verb (intransitive)] > behave in ill-mannered or unrefined way > become unrefined to come to town1600 the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)] mode1654 to come in1680 to come up1704 to come to town1905 to hang five, ten1962 OE Menologium 8 For þy se kalend us cymeð geþincged on þam ylcan dæge us to tune. lOE Laws: Gerefa (Corpus Cambr.) x. 454 Me mæig..on hærfeste ripan, in Agusto & Septembri & Octobri mawan, wad spittan.., ær to tune to stið winter cume. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9160 Allse bidell birrþ beon sennd. To ȝarrkenn. & to greȝȝþenn. Onnȝæn hiss laferrd þær þær he Shall cumenn sket to tune. a1250 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Maidstone) (1955) 121 (MED) Elde cummeþ to tune mid fele unkuþe costes. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 43 Lenten ys come wiþ loue to toune. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14277 ‘Crist,’ sco said, ‘es cummen to tun.’ a1450 (?c1350) Pride of Life l. 157 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 95 (MED) I am Hele icom to toun, Þi kinde curteyse kniȝte. 1600 Newe Metamorphosis (MS) in J. O. Halliwell & T. Wright Nares's Gloss. (1859) II. 893/2 This first was court-like, nowe 'tis come to towne; Tis comon growne with every country clowne. 1661 M. Nedham True Char. Rigid Presbyter 78 The old Saviour needs must gang Now a new one's come to town. 1683 J. Oldham Poems & Transl. 174 Fair stood his hopes, when first he came to Town, Met every where with welcomes of Renown. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. xii. viii. 174 Why here's more News of Madam Sophia come to Town. 1840 C. Giles Convent. of Drunkards (ed. 2) 13 Since this new plague has come to town, The whiskey signs are tumbling down. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) ii, in Writings I. 11 I've been quite in the way of babies to-night,..young master's come to town. 1905 Daily Chron. 11 Mar. 4/6 This Thrums sketch proved to delighted Londoners that J. M. Barrie had ‘come to town’. 1952 E. B. White Let. 6 Apr. (1976) 355 Spring is making little sashays about coming to town, but it has been a fairly unconvincing demonstration so far. 2001 High Country News 23 Apr. 15/3 Move over, SUVs, the T-Rex of all sport utility vehicles is coming to town. P2. to go to town. ΚΠ OE Lacnunga (2001) I. xiv. 8 Gesomnige ealle þas wyrta togædere þrim nihtan ær sumor on tun ga. OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 82 Ver ys lengtentima, and he gæð to tune on vii idus Februarii. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 351 Folkis..Thankand God..Thair Lord was gane to toun. b. slang (originally Jazz). To do something energetically, enthusiastically, or without restraint, esp. in response to a particular situation or opportunity. Frequently with on. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] twig1573 to go at ——1675 to go it1794 to come it1796 to lay it on thick1806 to blaze away1826 bushwhack1837 steam1842 split1844 rustle1882 to work like a demon1884 yank1888 go-at-it1904 to go somea1911 to put a jerk in it1919 to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923 to work (etc.) one's ass off1924 to go to town1933 to gie (or give) it laldy1974 1933 Fortune Aug. 47/1 Returning to Trombonist Brown, he can get off, swing it, sock it, smear it, or go to town (all of which mean syncopate to beat the band). 1934 Winnipeg Free Press 1 Nov. 18/3 Some of these speedy skaters will really be able to ‘go to town’ on that spacious surface in St. Paul. 1958 A. Hocking Epit. for Nurse ix. 159 The local papers naturally went to town over the murder of Sister Biggs. 1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl ii. ix. 128 ‘It's funny as hell to see girls fight.’.. ‘They're really tough sorts, and boy! do they go to town. And swear! Punching and spitting and pulling hair.’ 1972 P. M. Hubbard Whisper in Glen vii. 67 Whoever had painted the thing, he had gone to town on his picture. 2001 Contact May 38/2 The exhibitors really go to town, sparing little expense in their efforts to create colour and entertain visitors. ΚΠ c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 10 (MED) Tomas telles in toun Þis auentours as þai ware. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) l. 4717 (MED) He þat him-self preiseþ in towne, Wiþ an hors tord men shullen him crowne. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 219 Schir, lat it neuer in toune be tald. 1594 R. Holland Holie Hist. Lord & Saviour 119 Go home said Christ, sith thou art well, Of this in towne to no man tell. P4. Chiefly poetic and literary. Coupled with tower in allusive contexts to refer to all the inhabited places of a country or region, (hence) everywhere. Chiefly in town and tower, tower and town. Cf. in field and town at field n.1 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [noun] stead1297 tower and townc1330 wonec1330 seat and soila1400 inhabitationc1400 populationa1544 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 4732 (MED) King Arthour Hadde ywarnist toun and tour. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12983 Al þis werld, bath tur and tun. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 928 Al myn heritage, toun and tour I yeue it yow. a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) l. 1576 (MED) Of þaire dedes was grete renown To and fra in towre and towne. ?1548 Pathose sig. A.iiv And towne and towre To lowt and lowre At my comaundement. 1621 J. Taylor Praise of Beggery sig. B2 Let Townes and Towres with batt'ry be o're-turn'd. 1771 T. Percy Hermit of Warkworth iii. 33 Sometimes a Minstrel's garb he wears, With pipes so sweet and shrill; And wends to every tower and town; O'er every dale and hill. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. xvi. 78 Carlisle town and tower. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Flower in Enoch Arden, etc. 171 Thieves..Sow'd it far and wide By every town and tower. 1876 W. G. Palgrave Dutch Guiana vii. 260 Town and tower lessen and disappear behind the nearer river-margin of plantation and tree. 1945 J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 1 A reach away the breach is made By dive and shout That circles out To Henley Tower and Town. P5. colloquial. man (also woman, etc.) about town and variants: a person who mingles in the pursuits or society of the town; spec. one who is frequently seen at fashionable social occasions; a member of fashionable society; a socialite. Now frequently hyphenated. Cf. girl about town at girl n. Phrases 2a, about prep.1 7b. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male gallant1388 wamfler15.. rutter1506 younkera1522 fine gentleman1575 cavalier1589 whisker1595 jinglespur1604 bravery1616 brisk1621 chevalier1630 man about town1647 man of mode1676 man of distinction1699 sprag1707 sparky1756 blood1763 swell1786 Corinthian1819 galliard1828 mondain1833 toff1851 flâneur1854 Johnny1883 silver-tail1898 knut1911 lounge lizard1918 old buster1919 Hooray Henry1959 society > leisure > social event > [noun] > participant man (also woman, etc.) about town1734 racketer1753 social butterfly1837 socialite1909 socializer1941 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 196 I was a youth about the town when he undertook that expedition. 1678 T. D'Urfey Fool turn'd Critick iv. ii. 34 Were I not favourable, many a poor Fellow about Town would be undone. 1734 in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS App. vi. 146 in Parl. Papers 1897 (C. 8551) LI. 1 Though being what is called an idle man about Town, I generally read all that is writ on both sides. 1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2892 There are now two sorts of young fellows about Town, who call themselves Bucks and Bloods. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxvi. 317 He was quite the man-about-town of the conversation. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) x. 83 A perfect and celebrated ‘blood’, or dandy about town. 1889 W. Roberts Hist. Eng. Bookselling 121 Wits, men-about-town, and fashionable notabilities. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Apr. 2/1 The young raff about town; his respectable M.P. father. 1979 ‘S. Kemp’ Goodbye, Pussy xii. 160 Zoë had been an ‘actress’. Actress, model, woman-about-town. 1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto vi. 107 My father was a man-about-town, very well known in Soweto in the fifties. P6. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun] > person > male franion1571 Corinthian1575 colt1584 libertine1584 tit1601 night-sneaker1611 highboy1667 man of the town1671 town bull1709 gay deceiver1710 Lothario1756 playboy1829 gay dog1847 girlie-man1897 lizard1935 player1968 mack daddy1991 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iv. 60 As I am a Gentleman, a man of the Town, one who wears good Cloathes, Eates, Drinks, and Wenches abundantly. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Man o' th' Town, a Lew'd Spark, or very Debaushe. a1704 T. Brown Dialogues of Dead in 4th Vol. Wks. (1720) 142 I have been a Man of the Town..and admitted into the Family of the Rakehellonians. 1765 G. A. Stevens Celebrated Lect. on Heads (new ed.) 14 This is a man of the town, or a blood; and this is a woman of the town or a —— but by what other title the lady chuses to be called, we are not entitled to mention. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Man of the town, a rake, a debauchee. 1828 L. Hunt Ld. Byron & Some Contemp. 91 If he could have got rid of this [affectation] and his title, he would have talked like a man; not like a mere man of the town, or a great spoilt schoolboy. b. euphemistic. woman (also lady) of the town: a prostitute. Cf. girl of (the) town at girl n. Phrases 2b, town woman n. at Compounds 1b. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1673 J. Arrowsmith Reformation iv. ii. 56 He talks o're all the women of the town..and call'd them all by their names as freely as if he had been Pimp to all the company. 1680 Revenge; or, Match in Newgate i. ii. 8 A Whore! Oh call her a Miss, a Ladie of the Town, a Beautie of delight, or any thing. Whore! 'tis a nauseous name, and out of fashion now to call things by their right names. 1765 G. A. Stevens Celebrated Lect. on Heads (new ed.) 11 Women of the town may be allowed the use of paint, because the dexterity of their profession, like that of pirates, consists in fighting under false colours. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 14 The lady was only a woman of the town. 1873 G. H. Lewes Diary 1 Jan. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) V. 357 Trollope came to lunch. Told me of his trouble with Harry wanting to marry a woman of the town. 1886 Lantern (New Orleans) 20 Oct. 2/2 Orders were issued to the police to remove all women-of-the-town. 1940 D. W. Brogna France under Republic iii. 192 The trail of scandal led straight from the dingy offices and hotels of the Paris of confidence tricksters and ladies of the town, to the Élysée. 1982 C. Castle Folies Bergère i. 37 At the back of the stalls..the notorious ‘ladies of the town’..plied their trade. P7. upon (also on) the town. a. Making a living by prostitution or in some other disreputable way. Frequently in to come upon the town: to enter into a life of prostitution. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > engaged in prostitution [phrase] upon the town1712 on (or upon) the loose1749 on the turf1860 on the game1898 on the bash1936 on the knock1969 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > by or in manner of theft [phrase] > engaged in theft on the game1839 upon (also on) the town1842 at or on the creep1928 on the knock-off1936 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 266. ⁋2 This Creature is what they call newly come upon the Town. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. iv. 25 I ha'nt been so long upon the Town. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 15/1 So the Child is placed upon the Parish, and the Woman upon the Town. 1842 P. Egan Capt. Macheath iii. 32 Jack long was on the town, a teazer;..Could turn his ‘fives’ to anything, Nap a reader, or filch a ring. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 103 This lady..has been on the town about fifteen months,..having a good deal of custom in the mercantile way. 1883 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 24 Mar. 329/1 The young girls who come upon the town and fall to the lot of the so-called better classes. 1973 P. O'Brian HMS Surprise iv. 70 I shall have no hugger-mugger correspondence in my house; there has been enough of that, with your cousin going into keeping, or coming upon the town, or whatever you like to call it in your modern flash way of speaking. 1998 R. Trumbach Sex & Gender Revol. I. v. 148 Another girl was debauched by a captain and then went on the town, wandering in Fleet Street, picking up men. b. In receipt of parish or town relief; so as to be dependent on charity or state support. Esp. in to come (also go, fall, be flung, etc.) upon the town. Cf. on (also upon) the parish at parish n. Phrases. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > in impoverished state [phrase] > in receipt of relief on (also upon) the parisha1637 in collection1702 upon (also on) the town1783 the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > receive poor relief to live on the alms-basket1598 to go (also come, fall, be sent, etc.) on the parisha1637 to take collection1670 to come (also go, fall, be flung, etc.) upon the town1836 1783 J. Rayner Cases at Large conc. Tithes II. 528 Such poor as might thereafter fall upon the town by reason of persons inhabiting it. 1836 C. G. Finney Serm. Important Subj. vii. 170 They..think they had much better attend to their worldly business, lest their families should come upon the town. 1890 J. G. Austin Dr. LeBaron & his Daughter xxi. 197 ‘Why did you not let me know of your condition before it came to this?’.. ‘I could not pay you, Doctor, and I did not want to come upon the town.’ 1893 F. H. Underwood Quabbin x. 82 When friendless and destitute persons, legally entitled to support, were, in common parlance, ‘flung upon the town’, the keeper of the poor-farm provided for them in the house he occupied. 1936 R. E. Desvernine Democratic Despotism xii. 224 The old horror of living on the town seems to have disappeared from the minds of many people. 1999 Wisconsin Mag. Hist. 82 266/1 Pride and independence were etched deep into local consciousness. To ‘go on the town’ was a disgrace. c. Participating in the fashionable pursuits of a city or town; moving in fashionable society. Frequently in to come upon the town: to enter into fashionable society. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > be in fashionable society [verb (intransitive)] upon the town1713 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [adverb] > in fashionable society upon (also on) the town1713 1713 A. Pope Let. in Wks. (1822) VII. 265 An author, who is once come upon the town, is enjoyed without being thanked for the pleasure. 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 167 We have a man looked up to to-day..in the Gazette in three months, and on the town again, brighter than ever. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. x. 101 Five-and-twenty years ago the young Earl of Kew came upon the town, which speedily rang with the feats of his Lordship. 1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child i. 13 Dash it, a man can't be on the Town without kicking up a lark or so every now and then! P8. colloquial. (out) on the town: enjoying the nightlife of a city or town. Frequently in a night on the town. ΚΠ 1860 Illustr. Times 25 Feb. 1/3 Vice is amply catered for in the publicans' houses already, as a night on the town may show to any philosophical inquirer. 1939 Washington Post 30 Apr. vi. 1/8 A night on the town for two will run to $150 or better. 1948 A. J. Hanna & K. A. Hanna Lake Okeechobee xxvii. 330 After appointing certain of their party to stay sober.., they went out on the town. 1981 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 18 July 8/4 A night on the town turned sour when a 22 year-old man hit a glass collector in the face with a beer stein. 1993 Independent on Sunday 4 Apr. 22/5 George VI was outraged his son-in-law was on the town with a showgirl. 2006 Philadelphia May 229/1 A crowded, cacophonous mix of special-occasioners out on the town. P9. town and country planning n. chiefly British the planning and regulation of the development of land; cf. town planning n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town and country > [noun] > planning of town and country planning1915 1915 Brit. Architect 8 Jan. 16/2 The great opportunity of a comprehensive plan, including every phase of town and country planning, housing, planning, sanitation, transport, industry, and agriculture. 1972 Whitaker's Almanack 1177/2 The Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (consolidating earlier Acts) contains very far-reaching provisions affecting the liberty of an owner of land to develop and use it as he will. 2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 120/3 Abercrombie was the pioneer of town and country planning and the first person to advocate the establishing of Green Belts round built-up areas. P10. to beat up the town for recruits: see beat v.1 27. the only game in town: see game n. Phrases 18. new kid in town: see new kid n. to paint the town (red): see paint v.1 Phrases 1. to strike town: see strike v. 68b. talk of the town: see talk n. 4. (out) on the town P8. colloquial. (out) on the town: enjoying the nightlife of a city or town. Frequently in a night on the town. ΚΠ 1860 Illustr. Times 25 Feb. 1/3 Vice is amply catered for in the publicans' houses already, as a night on the town may show to any philosophical inquirer. 1939 Washington Post 30 Apr. vi. 1/8 A night on the town for two will run to $150 or better. 1948 A. J. Hanna & K. A. Hanna Lake Okeechobee xxvii. 330 After appointing certain of their party to stay sober.., they went out on the town. 1981 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 18 July 8/4 A night on the town turned sour when a 22 year-old man hit a glass collector in the face with a beer stein. 1993 Independent on Sunday 4 Apr. 22/5 George VI was outraged his son-in-law was on the town with a showgirl. 2006 Philadelphia May 229/1 A crowded, cacophonous mix of special-occasioners out on the town. < as lemmas |
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