| 单词 | the devil among the tailors |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe devil among the tailors m. the devil among the tailors and variants: (a) a game similar to table skittles, played esp. in public houses, in which a top (‘the devil’) is set spinning with the aim of knocking over as many wooden men (‘tailors’) as possible (now rare); (b) †a disturbance, a row (obsolete); (also) a person who creates a disturbance (cf. to raise the Devil at raise v.1 22b).The phrase may have originated or been popularized as the title of a dance tune. The sense ‘a disturbance’ was particularly associated with a riot instigated by tailors who felt insulted by a burlesque entitled The Tailors, performed in 1830. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > a disturbance caused by dissension tirpeilc1330 to-doc1330 affraya1393 frayc1420 tuilyiea1500 fraction1502 broil1525 ruffle1534 hurly-burly1548 embroilment1609 roil1690 fracas1727 row1746 the devil among the tailors1756 noration1773 splorea1791 kick-upa1793 rumption1802 ruction1809 squall1813 tulyie-mulyie1827 shindy1829 shine1832 donnybrook1852 shiveau1862 roughhouse1882 ruckus1885 shemozzle1885 turn-up1891 rookus1892 funk1900 incident1913 potin1922 shivoo1924 furore1946 shindig1961 1756 Read's Weekly Jrnl. 4 Sept. A great number of persons daily frequented an alehouse near the Five Fields, Chelsea, to game at several unlawful games, such as..devil and taylors. 1765 Lloyd's Evening Post 9 Sept. And then there is the Devil among the taylors, and the Devil among the players [etc.]. 1767 Public Advertiser 8 May A Barber or a Shoemaker playing at the Devil among the Taylors in a public House. 1782 Public Advertiser 26 Nov. Gobble, alarmed, declares he would give his Daughter to Harlequin if he would bring the Devil among the Taylors. 1828 J. Ruddiman Tales & Sketches 71 You forget that you are..nae playing at ‘the deil amang the tailors’ here; sic glaiks are not for douce folks like you and me. 1834 Ld. Londonderry Let. 27 May in Court Will. IV & Victoria (1861) II. iv. 98 Reports are various as to the state of the enemy's camp, but all agree that there is the devil among the tailors. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 17/2 A game known as the ‘Devil among the tailors’..a top was set spinning on a long board, and the result depended upon the number of men, or ‘tailors’, knocked down by the ‘devil’ (top) of each player. 1912 Times 28 June 9/6 The devil among the tailors created nothing like the hullaballoo there had been among the doctors, whose very silk hats had bristled with indignation. 1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes xi. 139 A game which one finds far too seldom in public houses is ‘devil among the tailors’. 1983 Times 22 Aug. 9/2 Suddenly a springy young man with a soldier's haircut has sprung into their midst, a devil-among-the-tailors, and is making the floor look like a trampoline. 1998 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 26 June 5 They enjoyed games such as devil-among-the-tailors and table skittles as well as browsing among the bric-a-brac and books on sale. 2003 N. Brownlee Everything you didn't need to know about UK 152 Traditional Pub Games... Western Skittles, Old English Skittles, Long Alley, Rolly Polly, Hood Skittles, Daddlums, Table Skittles (Devil Amongst the Tailors). < as lemmas |
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