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单词 to card away
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to card away
b. transitive. to card away: to spend or lose (one's time, money, etc.) playing cards; to banish (one's trouble) playing cards. Obsolete.
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1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie sig. B.ij To dice, to daunce, to coll, to kisse, to carde the time away.
a1620 J. Dyke Divers Select Serm. (1640) 169 It may bee they may drinke away their trouble, and drowne it that way; It may bee they card and dice it away.
a1721 W. Darrell Moral Refl. Select Passages New Test. (1736) I. 52 At once he plays the fool and the devil; first by carding away his money, and then by blaspheming away his innocence.
1797 G. Waring End of Time (ed. 4) 20 Many of you who are trifling away your time,..dancing and carding away your time, and squandering it away in sinful amusement.
1908 G. Hewlett Spanish Jade i. 6 If his gentlehood had been negotiable he had carded it away.
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