| 单词 | to bu st one's boiler |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bu(r)st one's boiler to bu(r)st one's boiler (figurative), to come, or bring, to grief. U.S. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief misfareOE miswendOE misferec1275 misspeeda1387 miscarryc1387 mischieve?a1400 to catch copper1530 to lose one's seatc1540 mischief1598 to bu(r)st one's boiler1824 to come to grief1850 to come (also go) a mucker1851 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 mucker1862 to go or be up the flume1865 to come undone1899 to play smash1903 to come to a sticky end1904 to come unstuck1911 1824 Franklin Herald (Greenfield, Mass.) 2 Mar. in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) I 1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 218 That'll make them think somebody's busted their biler. 1847 W. I. Paulding Madmen All 189 May my boiler be eternally busted, if there isn't that are lady. < as lemmas |
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