单词 | the knife |
释义 | > as lemmasthe knife f. the knife: used as typical of surgical operations. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [noun] > a surgical operation operation?a1425 surgical1828 the knife1880 procedure1890 op1925 1880 Ld. Tennyson Ballads & Other Poems 88 But they said too of him He was happier using the knife than in trying to save the limb. 1880 Ld. Tennyson Ballads & Other Poems 95 My sleep was broken besides with dreams of the dreadful knife. 1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 350 And leave you knife-wallahs to kill our patients? 1961 Woman 18 Mar. 10/4 Had she seen the new nurse on women's surgical? The knife men always had the luck. < as lemmas |
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