| 单词 | the turf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe turf 4. the turf (often with capital T). extracted from turfn.1 a. The grassy track or course over which horse racing takes place; hence, the institution, action, or practice of horse racing; the racing world. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > as institution soda1753 the turf1755 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 153/1 If you are a true sportsman, and have the honour of the turf at heart. 1771 P. Parsons Newmarket I. p. ii The heroes of the Turf. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Man of the turf, a horse racer, or jockey. 1803–5 W. Pick Turf Reg. (title page) All the Horses..that have appeared on the British and Irish Turfs as Racers. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. v. 273 Have you any horses on the turf? 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 315 Already..there was among our nobility and gentry a passion for the amusements of the turf. b. transferred. The road or street as the milieu of prostitutes, tramps, etc.; esp. on the turf, engaged in prostitution. slang. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > engaged in prostitution [phrase] upon the town1712 on (or upon) the loose1749 on the turf1860 on the game1898 on the bash1936 on the knock1969 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > as milieu of highwaymen, tramps, or prostitutes road1724 the turf1860 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) On the turf, one who occupies himself with race course business; said also of a street-walker. 1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps i. ii. 28 The road proper, or ‘the turf’, as the people who toil along its stretches sometimes prefer to call it, is low life in general. 1936 H. Asbury French Quarter xii. 369 During [Kate Townsend's] early years ‘on the turf’, as the saying went, she was..thrifty and ambitious. 1962 T. Parker & R. Allerton Courage of his Convictions v. 179 I wouldn't let her go out on the turf, because of this thing I've got about not poncing. 1984 J. O'Donoghue Sergeant Horn's Murder Trap vi. 41 ‘I might have been one of Ma Dolma's brasses for all you know.’..‘Come off it. You've never been on the turf.’ < as lemmas |
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