| 单词 | beef to the heel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeef to the heel(s) c. Slang phr. beef to the heel(s): of a person: massive, bulky, brawny. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [adjective] > and broad massya1382 stout1390 burlyc1400 corporalc1475 massive1485 poisy1538 big-made1566 chopping1566 grossa1578 large-bodied1577 weighty1581 burly-boned1590 mastya1593 lumbering1593 giantisha1635 gigantic1651 mastiff1668 large-made1725 lusty1777 bowerly1794 squelching1854 beef to the heel(s)1867 hefty1867 1867 R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower I. xviii. 294 Dolly was not a fine person, as they say, at all; not beef to the heels, by any means. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 63 We did great biz yesterday. Fair day and all the beef to the heels were in. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 355 Transparent stockings, stretched to breaking point. Not like..the one in Grafton street. White. Wow! Beef to the heel. 1958 A. Wall Queen's English xxxi. 110 ‘Beef’ and ‘beefy’ are not complimentary terms, and ‘beef to the heels’ is even less so. < as lemmas |
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