| 单词 | please the pigs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplease the pigs P8. Chiefly British. please the pigs: if circumstances permit; if all is well. Now rare. [Origin unknown. Some have suggested a corruption of either pyx n.1 or of pixies , plural of pixie n., but without any supporting historical evidence.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > possibility > subject to outside forces [phrase] if (also and) God willc1300 will God1488 please the pigs1683 Deo volente1767 inshallah1857 1683 J. Norris Murnival of Knaves 17 Nay he shall be, and't please the Pigs The Anti-Yorkist of the Whigs, Or else be Canoniz'd by me The Whigs little St. Anthony. a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. ii. 92 I'll have one of the Wiggs to carry into the Country with me an't [printed and] please the Pigs. 1793 M. Pilkington Rosina IV. i. 20 Please the pigs, I'll be with him before cock-crow! 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 183 I know what I will do, and that is, please the Pix, I'll marry Louisa to her cousin George. 1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 819/1 There I'll be, please the pigs, on Thursday night. 1963 Times 11 Mar. 1/7 You may have heard someone say—‘Please the pigs, I'll come on Tuesday’. They mean, of course, if circumstances permit—Deo volente. < as lemmas |
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