单词 | threads and thrums |
释义 | > as lemmasthreads and thrums c. thread and thrum, each length of the warp-yarn, and the tuft where it is fastened to the loom; hence figurative the whole of anything; good and bad together. Also, threads and thrums, ends of warp threads, miscellaneous scraps or waste fragments. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > miscellaneous things short end1560 threads and thrums1600 varieties1624 giblet1638 thrum1648 scrip-scrap1711 sundries1711 odds and ends1761 oddment1821 odd-come-short1836 what-nota1861 flotsam1861 odds and sods1921 odds and bobs1957 the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot every whita1450 every stitch?a1500 the devil and all1543 prow and poop1561 Christ-cross-row1579 every snip1598 thread and thrum1600 boodle1625 hair and hoof1705 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 tutti quanti1772 lot1791 lock, stock, and barrel1824 stock and fluke1825 the whole boiling1837 box and dice1839 the whole caboodlea1848 sub-cheese1859 the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859 the whole jingbang1866 the whole hypothec1871 the whole ball of wax1882 the whole (entire) shoot1884 (at) every whip-stitch1888 work1899 issue1919 guntz1958 full monty1979 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 281 O fates come, come, cut thread and thrumme . View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. G2v Learne of me what Woman is. Something made of thred and thrumme; A meere Botch of all and some. 1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 93 By those thrums and threds that he hath pickt and puld out of it.., the Reader may judge of the whole. 1833 T. Carlyle Diderot in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) V. 2 The confused and ravelled mass of threads and thrums, ycleped Memoirs. < as lemmas |
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