单词 | outside of |
释义 | > as lemmasoutside of Phrases P1. In noun use. a. outside in (usually with turn): so that the outer side becomes the inner; = inside out at inside n.1 4. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > inverted [phrase] > inside out inside outwards1681 outside in1681 The ‘In’ and ‘Out1925 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Inverse, a turning inside out, or outside in, upside down, quite contrary. 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World I. vii. 129 'Tis London turn'd outside in. Here's Streets, and Signs, and Paint. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 66 The Circus..looks like Vespasian's amphitheatre turned outside in. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 166 Preaching..as if the great world were to be turned..inside out, or outside in. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 18 He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out. 1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose i. 13 There ‘Sundowner's’ with, turned outside in, served as the puttee to a turkey's skin. 2002 Creative Loafing Atlanta (Nexis) 19 June The penis is split open, hollowed out..and the remaining skin is turned outside in. b. to be on the outside looking in and variants: to be excluded from some group, activity, etc. ΚΠ 1910 Chicago Tribune 11 Sept. iii. 1/2 You can make a cleaner getaway if you're on the outside looking in. 1944 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 38 902 Women are still on the outside looking in. 1971 M. Babson Cover-up Story ii. 24 They were laughing at me... It was in-joke laughter, and I was on the outside looking in. 1990 A. Leonard Gate-crashing Dream Party (BNC) 77 I was on the outside looking in... They belonged to a club I wasn't qualified to join, they were at a party and I hadn't been asked. P2. In adverb use, forming a compound preposition with of. outside of (cf. out of prep.). a. Indicating spatial relationship. (a) Beyond the walls, limits, or bounds of; to or on the outside of; external to. outside of a horse (colloquial): on horseback. ΚΠ 1784 J. O'Keeffe Poor Soldier (stage direct.) ii. iii. 20 Outside of Dermot's House. 1842 I. Taylor Anc. Christianity II. 303 The sepulchre lay outside of the ancient city. 1878 O. W. Holmes John Lothrop Motley: Mem. x. 69 His objects of interest outside of his special work. 1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xv He looked better outside of a horse than on his own legs. 1915 J. Webster Dear Enemy 174 He likes to dine outside of the family vault. 1975 Nature 20 Mar. p. xx (advt.) These books are..distributed outside of the U.S.A. and Canada by Academic Press. (b) to get outside of —— (slang): to swallow, eat, or drink ——. Hence to be outside of ——: to have eaten or drunk ——. Cf. Phrases 3b(a). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > outside of [preposition] withoutc893 utouth1478 withoutside1686 outside1711 outta1856 to get outside of ——1869 1869 Galaxy June 831 Don't let's get outside of more'n a bottle apiece, and that plain whiskey. 1886 P. G. Ebbutt Emigrant Life Kansas 182 Directly he got outside of a few glasses of whisky, his manner was very different. 1890 D. Arrowsmith in Big Game N. Amer. 521 My wife said she knew, from his [sc. a racoon's] full stomach and his sneaking look, that he was outside of her pet turkey. 1918 New Jersey Mosquito Dec. 11/1 I got outside a flask of drink, Then stepped into a skating rink. 1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories i. 50 ‘Come on,’ says I to Marie,..‘we'll get outside of a feed of bacon and egg and black pudding, and then it's you and me for the nearest flowery dell.’ b. colloquial (originally U.S.). Apart from, with the exception of. ΚΠ 1847 J. J. Oswandel Notes Mexican War (1885) ii. 85 Those who have any money left can get something outside of government rations to eat, but those who have none have to take what comes, good or not good. 1859 A. L. Elwyn Gloss. Supposed Americanisms 82 Outside, this word is frequently used by writers in newspapers in a sense not known to the language. In a Ledger of a late date, there is a phrase..‘outside of the Secretary of War’, for ‘no one but that official’. 1890 Cent. Mag. 127/2 I do not often see anybody outside of my servants, being not at all given to visiting. 1972 New York 8 May 62/2 Outside of a slightly annoying tendency to call all female customers ‘Hon’, everything about Mr. Blume inspires confidence. 1991 F. Kanga Heaven on Wheels (1992) iii. 25 Outside of the people who knew me well, I was a cute joke, ‘just like a real-life walkie-talkie doll’. P3. In prepositional use. ΚΠ 1861 C. J. Lever One of Them lii. 403 Until I came to understand the thing, I was always ‘outside the ropes’. b. to get outside ——: (a) slang to eat or drink —— (also to put oneself outside ——); (b) U.S. to master, to understand. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (transitive)] eatc825 to-fret?c1225 vourc1330 dinec1380 to eat inc1450 engorge1541 tooth1579 canvass1602 get1603 eat1607 manger1609 upeat1630 dispatch1711 feed1725 yam1725 to eat off1733 repartake1751 patter1803 chop1833 smouse1840 to stow away1858 to put oneself outside ——1865 to get outside ——1876 to feed down1887 1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. ii. 46 You enter ostensibly to purchase cherries, and immediately ‘put yourself outside’ a ‘tot’. 1876 Temple Bar Oct. 227 To-morrow aint here, but the grub is, and so I'm a-going to get outside it while I can. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 405/1 To get outside a thing is to understand it. 1908 Daily Chron. 2 Oct. 3/4 Apples—so large that even the greediest schoolboy could hardly hope to get outside more than one. 1967 D. Campbell in Coast to Coast 1965–6 21 It takes me half an hour to get outside the mixed grill and the ice-cream and coffee. 1977 D. Seaman Committee 27 The first thing I'm going to do when I leave here is put myself outside a long, cold drink. 2008 S. MacBride Flesh House (2009) xvii. 175 DI Steel sat in the passenger seat, eating a bacon buttie.., while Logan got himself outside a hot steak pie. < as lemmas |
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