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单词 on the turf
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on the turf
b. transferred. The road or street as the milieu of prostitutes, tramps, etc.; esp. on the turf, engaged in prostitution. slang.
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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
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > as milieu of highwaymen, tramps, or prostitutes
road1724
the turf1860
1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) On the turf, one who occupies himself with race course business; said also of a street-walker.
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps i. ii. 28 The road proper, or ‘the turf’, as the people who toil along its stretches sometimes prefer to call it, is low life in general.
1936 H. Asbury French Quarter xii. 369 During [Kate Townsend's] early years ‘on the turf’, as the saying went, she was..thrifty and ambitious.
1962 T. Parker & R. Allerton Courage of his Convictions v. 179 I wouldn't let her go out on the turf, because of this thing I've got about not poncing.
1984 J. O'Donoghue Sergeant Horn's Murder Trap vi. 41 ‘I might have been one of Ma Dolma's brasses for all you know.’..‘Come off it. You've never been on the turf.’
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