| 单词 | to find a hole in a person's coat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto find (pick, make) a hole in a person's coat 9. figurative. A flaw, fault, ground for blame. Usually in to pick a hole or holes in something; formerly also to find (pick, make) a hole in a person's coat. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > defect or fault or flaw faultc1320 breckc1369 villainyc1400 offencec1425 defectc1450 defection1526 vitiosity1538 faintness1543 gall1545 eelist1549 mar1551 hole1553 blemish1555 wart1603 flaw1604 mulct1632 wound1646 failurea1656 misfeature1818 bug1875 out1886 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 53 The lawyers lacke no cases..Is his Lease long..Then (qþ he) let me alone with it, I wil finde a hole in it. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vi. 85 If I finde a hole in his Coat, I will tell him my minde. View more context for this quotation 1648 M. Nedham Plea for King 21 Every ambitious popular person would be ready to pick holes in their Coates, to bring them into disfavour of the People. 1682 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 4 If they did not appeare, there might some hole be picked in their charter. 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 219 If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it. 1871 D. M. Mulock Fair France i. 4 We do not go to visit a neighbour, in order to pick holes in him and his establishment. 1894 A. D. Godley Aspects Mod. Oxf. 93 Any one can pick holes in the University system of teaching and examination. < as lemmas |
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