| 单词 | to do a hot foot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do a hot foot (also foots) 2. U.S. slang. Prompt or rapid action or movement; a quick escape. Esp. in to do a hot foot (also foots), to give (a person) the hot foot, to come (or go) on the hot foot. Cf. hotfoot adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] celerity1483 speediness1530 navity1623 velocitya1674 expeditiousness1708 hot foot1869 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > going away suddenly or hurriedly scamper1697 decampment1706 helter-skelter1713 scamperinga1774 run1799 leg-bail1808 bolting1820 bolt1831 absquatulation1839 vamosing1862 hot foot1869 1869 Congress. Globe 15 Jan. 389/3 The honorable Senator..admonishes us of the importance of hot-foot in this business, if I may say so, of allowing the testimony to be taken at once. 1897 Appleton's Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 833 To run from a police officer is to do a hot foot. 1903 ‘H. McHugh’ Back to Woods iv. 66 Did somebody give you the hot-foot and make a quick exit? 1905 ‘H. McHugh’ You can search Me iii. 55 If somebody ever steals his hammer he'll be doing hotfoots for the handout. 1926 Flynn's 16 Jan. 639/1 I know that th'fly was jerry because he gave me th'once over as I was comin' out and I went on th' hoot-foot... I beat it. 1929 C. F. Coe Hooch! x. 241 You dress an' grab a cab, see? Come down here to Zuroto's on the hot foot. 1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) iii. lxvi. 994 He had given them a little hotfoot and had gone running back into the desert. < as lemmas |
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