单词 | side door |
释义 | side doorn.adj. A. n. 1. A door in or at the side of a building, enclosure, vehicle, etc.; (also) a door on one side of, or additional to, a main door. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door hall-doorc1275 falling doorc1300 stable doorc1330 vice-door1354 hecka1400 lodge-doorc1400 street door1465 gate-doora1500 portal1516 backdoor1530 portal door1532 side door1535 by-door1542 outer door1548 postern door1551 house door1565 fore-door1581 way-door1597 leaf door1600 folding door1611 clap-door1625 balcony-door1635 out-door1646 anteportc1660 screen door1668 frontish-door1703 posticum1704 side entrance1724 sash-door1726 Venetian door1731 oak1780 jib-door1800 trellis?c1800 sporting door1824 ledge-door1825 through door1827 bivalves1832 swing-door1833 tradesmen's entrance1838 ledged door1851 tradesmen's door?1851 fire door1876 storm door1878 shoji1880 fire door1889 Dutch door1890 patio door1900 stable door1900 ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901 suicide door1925 louvre door1953 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings vi. 34 Ether dore had two syde dores one hanginge to another. 1611 Bible (King James) Susanna 18 They..went out themselues at priuie doors [margin. Or, side doores] to fetch the things. View more context for this quotation 1679 W. Lodge tr. G. Barri Painters Voy. Italy 76 Over a side Door of the Church there is a most famous Square of the Invention of the Cross. 1707 Daily Courant 28 Feb. (advt.) The side Door of a Chariot, Painted Coffee Colour. 1753 D. Henry Hist. Descr. St. Paul’s Cathedral 27 At St. Paul's..there are three Doors, the two side Doors for daily Use, and the middle for Solemnities. 1830 W. Scott Monastery (new ed.) II. vii. 93 Christie of the Clinthill..emerged at that instant from the side-door under the archway. 1875 J. W. White Oedipus Tyrannus 140 (note) Both the personal attendants of Œdipus here leave the stage through the side door in the eastern parascenium. 1894 Outing 24 230/2 In a..fruitless search for some side-door entrance to a shop or restaurant. 1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 84/1 ‘Oh! Somebody's coming!’.. ‘Bunk out through the side door,’ said Rita, pushing her towards it. 1980 Times 28 May 3/1 BL's long-awaited new small car, the Mini Metro,..is a front-wheel-drive model with two side doors and a tailgate. 2013 New Yorker 30 Sept. 37/2 He slipped through the kitchen..and entered the club by a side door. 2. figurative. An indirect, unofficial, or surreptitious means of accessing or achieving something. Chiefly in by (also through) a side door. Cf. backdoor n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [noun] > approach backstairs1641 postern1642 side door1852 back channel1968 1852 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 20 Feb. 4/6 That part of the Bill which relates to the change in the oaths to be taken by members, breaking down another Protestant principle, and letting in the Jews by a side door, would of course be scouted under any circumstances. 1885 ‘A Tory Democrat’ Scotl. at Gen. Election 8 He starts as an Orangeman, or a strong Churchman,..and reaches Toryism, as it were, by a side-door. 1921 Pacific Rev. Sept. 178 Life is full of these moral side doors. 1965 New Statesman 30 Apr. 676/1 The proposed conference on Cambodia—an attempt to settle Vietnam through a side-door—may prove abortive. 1992 C. C. Carvounis & B. Z. Carvounis U.S. Trade & Investm. Lat. Amer. iv. 85 The gains the Japanese would realize by having this ‘side-door’ to American markets. 2013 Independent (Nexis) 22 May 46 Here, at last, the spirit of adventure seems to have sneaked in by a side door. B. adj. (attributive). Usually hyphenated. Achieved, acquired, etc., by indirect or surreptitious means; esp. (of an arrangement or agreement) unofficial, ‘shady’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] > accomplished by stealth stolenc1400 secret1548 clandestine1566 stealed1577 backdoor1581 underhand1592 surreptitial1602 surreptitious?1615 furtive1628 surreptious1630 by1633 surreptive1633 subreptitious1641 surreptitious1645 postern1648 backstairs1663 smuggled1707 underneath1747 underhanded1806 hidlingsa1810 hole-and-corner1835 side door1862 under-cover1933 under the table1938 crafty1946 1862 Daily Commerc. Reg. (Sandusky, Ohio) 10 Feb. We do not see in it [sc. the printing of special dispatches from Washington]..any public spirited enterprise, but the [sic] rather an attempted side door arrangement, calculated in the end both to damage the papers engaged in it and the whole newspaper press. 1904 Implement Age 1 Dec. 22/2 Scalping merchants in their town were getting ‘side door’ twine at cut prices from the same mills. 1930 Times 21 Mar. 15/5 We maintain that these ‘side door’ credits are endangering our chances of securing recognition of our bonds. 1962 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 14 May a3/2 Some sort of side-door deal was made between the influential conservative and liberal delegates. 2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 June 7 The sport's leadership also thought it was possible to do a tatty side-door deal with the Government before an election, free from political scrutiny. Compounds side-door Pullman n. North American slang (among hobos) an enclosed railway freight car with sliding doors on the sides; a boxcar. [ < side door n. + Pullman n., with ironic allusion to the level of comfort afforded by such wagons when used as an illicit form of passenger transport or shelter.] ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > closed boxcar1831 van1837 house car1838 side-door Pullman1887 1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus xvii. 237 When the engine..started out, I lighted a match and took a look at my..travelling carriage, or ‘side-door Pullman’, as the ‘tramps’..facetiously call them. 1918 R. W. Lardner Treat 'em Rough 10 If they didn't have all the luck in the world they would be rideing [sic] around the country in a side door Pullman with all their baggage on. 1976 S. Hayden Voyage 227 Light out for..the freight yards in search of a side-door pullman. 2000 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Aug. This is the hobo ‘jungle’, the name the men who ride the ‘sidedoor Pullmans’ (box cars) give to their gathering places, usually near railway tracks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1535 |
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