| 单词 | the deuce and tom walker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe deuce and Tom Walker 1. the Devil and Tom Walker: used to express surprise, exasperation, etc., and in similes. Cf. devil n. Phrases 1d, devil n. Phrases 2. Similarly the deuce and Tom Walker (cf. deuce n.2 b), the dickens and Tom Walker (cf. dickens n. 3a). ΚΠ 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 272 The story has resolved itself into a proverb, and is the origin of that popular saying, so prevalent throughout New England, of ‘The Devil and Tom Walker’. 1832 Boston Morning Post 13 Oct. Litigation runs in the blood of some families..and when it once gets in it will puzzle the deuce and Tom. Walker to get it out again. 1889 Wade's Fibre & Fabric 18 May 93/2 Where the Dickens and Tom Walker do you hang out now? 1919 Lockhart (Texas) Post-Reg. 18 Dec. I like the Legion boys' way of doing business: fight back like the devil and Tom Walker. 1938 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 21 June 4/4 Working like the devil and Tom Walker. 1963 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 1/4 ‘The devil and Tom Walker,’ I said to myself..‘There must be something wrong here.’ 1999 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 1 July 15 a/1 The devil and Tom Walker! Do you have any idea the extent to which the federal courts..have prevented the Texas Lege [i.e. Legislature] from wreaking mayhem all these years? < as lemmas |
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