| 单词 | to eat like a horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat (also work) like a horse a. In comparisons: as holy (also as sick, as strong) as a horse; to eat (also work) like a horse. a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour: a thing or matter of a different (etc.) complexion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > a different matter or state of affairs a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530 a different (also another) story1688 something else1844 another pair of shoes1861 a different or another kettle of fish1937 a different cup of tea1940 the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > that which resembles something else swilkc1175 anlike1340 liking1340 likeningc1350 semblancec1374 resemblancea1393 likenessa1400 semblablec1400 similitudinary?a1425 like1440 assemblable?1530 a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530 resembler1570 fellowa1616 remonstrance1640 simile1743 ditto1776 something of the sort1839 that or this sort of thing1848 assimilate1935 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [adjective] pope-holya1387 Pharisaical1527 as holy (also as sick, as strong) as a horse1530 hypocritish1531 hypocritic1540 hypocritely1541 hypocritical1553 horse-holy?1589 sanctified1604 Pharisee-like1611 sanctimoniousa1616 Pharisaica1618 lip-holy1624 Bible-bearing1625 canting1663 unctuous1742 pietistical1753 pietical1782 goody-goody1785 goody1808 Sunday school1817 Pecksniffian1844 goodyish1848 goody-good1851 devil-dodging?1861 pietic1865 mawwormish1883 pietistic1884 mawwormy1885 pi1891 pietose1893 holier-than-thou1912 antimacassar1913 holy1958 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > eat heartily to lay in1579 to fall aboard——1603 to eat (also work) like a horse1707 to play a good knife and fork1809 tuck1810 stoke1882 to mug up1897 society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil workeOE swingc1000 to the boneOE labourc1390 toilc1400 drevyll?1518 drudge1548 droy1576 droil1591 to tug at the (an) oar1612 to stand to it1632 rudge1676 slave1707 to work like a beaver1741 to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828 to feague it away1829 to work like a nigger1836 delve1838 slave1852 leather1863 to sweat one's guts out1890 hunker1903 to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932 to eat (also work) like a horse1937 beaver1946 to work like a drover's dog1952 to get one's nose down (to)1962 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 620/1 He maketh as thoughe he were as holy as a horse, il pretent la saincteté dung cheual. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 161 My purpose is indeed a horse of that colour. View more context for this quotation 1707 Ld. Raby in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 14 Sept. (O.H.S.) II. 43 He eats like a Horse. 1798 Aurora (Philadelphia) 27 Aug. Whether any of them may be induced..to enter into the pay of King John I. [i.e. President Adams] is ‘a horse of another colour’. 1829 G. Griffin Collegians II. xxii. 160 ‘I never tought o' dat,’ said Danny... ‘Dat's a horse of anoder colour.’ 1853 E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. iv. 48 Attempting to sink poles and erect tents..in a high wind and belting rain, is (if I may be allowed the colonialism) ‘a horse of quite another colour’. 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late I. ii. 47 A gentleman is a horse of another colour than this Robinson. 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table vii. 197 It is a common saying of a jockey that he is ‘all horse’. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxiv. 216 ‘What did you think of his wife?’ ‘That's a horse of another colour altogether.’ 1877 J. M. Bailey Folks in Danbury 37 But this is a hoss of another colour. 1937 W. S. Maugham Theatre ii. 23 I'll give you a three years' contract, I'll give you eight pounds a week and you'll have to work like a horse. 1937 K. A. Porter Noon Wine 38 He never got married, for one thing, and he works like a horse. 1948 J. Carter Taste & Technique in Book-collecting (1949) ii. 24 Buxton Forman's A Shelley Library, however, was a horse of a different colour: no mere handlist but a fully annotated and richly informative study of Shelley's original editions. 1952 ‘N. Shute’ Far Country 80 Going into the saloon for every meal, and eating like a horse. 1966 Listener 5 May 661/1 A horse of a somewhat different colour is that tycoon of the brush, pop-man Salvador Dali. 1971 J. Philips Escape a Killer (1972) i. ii. 18 She could now ‘eat like a horse’. < as lemmas |
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