| 单词 | outside man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoutside man outside man n. †(a) a man who works outside or out of doors (obsolete); (b) U.S. slang a person involved in any of various special roles in a confidence trick or robbery. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > accomplice outputter1421 outparter1607 gammon1717 gammoner1795 outside man1861 inside man1935 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > outside or in open air outman1793 outworker1813 surfaceman1839 outside man1861 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) II. 447/1 The outsideman, whose business it is to attend to the pipe, which reaches from the cesspool..to the gullyhole. 1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) viii. iii. 198 Money can be made, but with a fool of an outside man even more than twenty thousand dollars might go up in smoke. 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xiv. 151 She was acting as look out or ‘outside man’ for two expert safe breakers. 1977 D. Powis Signs of Crime, Field Man. for Police 195 Outside man, Lookout man for criminals but particularly for a ‘firm’ of card sharps engaged in the three-card trick. < as lemmas |
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