| 单词 | to back and fill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto back and fill b. to back and fill (see fill v. 4c, 4d), to go backward and forward. Also transferred and figurative. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > move in a certain direction [verb (intransitive)] > move back and forth or come and go to come and goc1384 to pass and repassc1460 to back and fill1848 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] haltc825 flecchec1300 waverc1315 flickerc1325 wag1387 swervea1400 floghter1521 stacker1526 to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530 wave1532 stagger1533 to hang in the wind1536 to waver as, like, with the wind1548 mammer1554 sway1563 dodge1568 erch1584 suspend1585 float1598 swag1608 hoverc1620 hesitate1623 vacillate1623 fluctuate1634 demur1641 balance1656 to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674 to stand shall I, shall I1674 to go shill-I shall-I1700 to stand at shilly-shally1700 to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734 whiffle1737 dilly-dally1740 to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751 oscillate1771 shilly-shally1782 dacker1817 librate1822 humdrum1825 swing1833 (to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848 to back and fill1854 haver1866 wobble1867 shaffle1873 dicker1879 to be on the weigh-scales1886 waffle1894 to think twice1898 to teeter on the brink1902 dither1908 vagulate1918 pern1920 1777 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1906) XLII. 315 He was then order'd..to Stillwarter, then ordered from Stillwarter to Benington... This in the Salers Frase is Backing & filling, makes but poor way a head. 1848 F. A. Durivage Stray Subj. 174 The steam was well up on both boats, which lay rolling, and backing and filling, from the action of the paddles, at the dock. 1854 Congress. Globe 11 Dec. 57 Men will be sent to Congress who will not ‘back and fill’, and be on one principle for one week..and upon another principle another week. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxiii. 229 How in the world he [sc. the gondolier] can back and fill, shoot straight ahead,..is a problem to me. 1890 Harper's Mag. Sept. 598/2 Nimble stewards back and fill from galley to pantry. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 24 Oct. The engine was backing and filling on a sidetrack. < as lemmas |
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