| 单词 | to be out at elbow(s |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be out at elbow(s c. to be out at elbow(s: to have a coat worn out at the elbows, to be ragged, poor, in bad condition; hence, in same sense, out-at-elbowed adj. (nonce-word). So, in contrary sense, in at elbows (rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > in impoverished state [phrase] to the boneOE to be out at elbow(sa1616 in (also at) low water1785 down on the knuckle-bone1883 (down) on one's uppers1886 on the rocks1889 down and out1901 on the outer1915 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. i. 58 He cannot [speake] Sir: he's out at Elbow. View more context for this quotation 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 95 Sir Ulic Mackilligut..is said to be much out at elbows. 1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) I. vi. 238 He was himself just now so terribly out at elbows, that he could not command a hundred pounds. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon i Seedy out-at-elbowed coats. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. iv. 318 Several things known to be out at elbows in that Country. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxviii. 287 Pay that hardly keeps him in at elbows. 1885 Times 28 May There is an out-at-elbows look about some quarters of Dublin. < as lemmas |
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