单词 | that there |
释义 | > as lemmasthat there (b) that there. Used adjectivally and absolutely, often in euphemistic reference to sexual activity, esp. in catchphrase you can't do that there 'ere (see quot. 1933). ΚΠ 1819 Ld. Byron Let. 26 Oct. (1976) VI. 232 As to ‘Don Juan’—confess—confess—you dog—and be candid—that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing—it may be bawdy—but is it not good English? 1933 Squiers & Wark You can't do that there 'Ere in Feldman's 41st Song & Dance Album 37 As they took a kiss, The keeper shouted this: You can't do that there 'ere, so there! You can't do that there 'ere. You'd ought to know you 'ad, I'm sure, That that there 'ere's agin the law. 1937 Evening News 13 Apr. 8/3 The British Government gives vent to a ‘John-Bullism’, and says, after the abduction of a Hindu girl from within the border, ‘You can't do that there 'ere!’ 1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 406 How suitable, too, for a that-there poet that the room in which his ‘Memoirs’ were burned should now be called the Byron Room. 1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xi. 96 Long before the song ‘You can't do that there here’, Northerners used that there as a euphemism for the sexual act. It is a standard phrase in the north when youngsters of both sexes are ‘educating’ themselves by discussing sex matters. < as lemmas |
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