| 单词 | shovel and broom |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshovel and broom g. shovel and broom: rhyming slang for ‘room’. Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > [noun] clevec825 chamber?c1225 loftc1385 clochera1400 room1438 roomth1567 receipt1593 stance1632 receptacle1634 stanza1648 apartment1715 slum1819 space1921 shovel and broom1928 1928 M. C. Sharpe Chicago May 288/2 Shovel and broom, room. 1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Aug. 73/1 My rent is away overdue for the shovel and broom..and I have a hard-hearted landlady... She says she will give me the wind if I do not lay something on the line at once. 1938 Detective Fiction Weekly 23 Apr. 75/1 In Australian slang...a house is a ‘rat and mouse’ and a room a ‘shovel and broom’. < as lemmas |
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