| 单词 | to find frost |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto find frost P4. Scottish. to find frost: to meet with difficulties; to suffer the unpleasant consequences of one's actions. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this phrase as still in use in Orkney in 1953. ΚΠ 1712 R. Wodrow Analecta (1842) II. 118 What, will you testify against the Parliament? you [will] find frost in that, I see! 1755 Gill Morice 6 Sen ze by me will nae be warnd, In it ze sall find frost. 1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 736/2 Though I was sorry at his loss, I yet couldna but feel something like a satisfaction that he had found frost in no taking my advice. 1897 Shetland News 14 Aug. in Sc. National Dict. (1956) IV. (at cited word) Dey 'at wir in a scad ta get sheep an' lambs wi' muckle tails is finin' da frost o' hit noo. 1928 Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl. 30 Aug. 6 I some doot they wid fin frost gin we wisna there tae leuk aifter things. < as lemmas |
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