| 单词 | to go to sticks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go (all) to sticks P12. to go (all) to sticks and variants: to be ruined; to be rendered worthless or penniless through a decline in quality, value, wealth, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. ix. 95 She married a Highland drover, or tacksman, I can't tell which, and they went all to sticks and staves. 1894 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 15 Feb. 132/3 While this cheap herd may have started right, with a few injudicious crosses and bad care,..it ‘may have gone all to sticks’. 1920 L. G. Long Farmer Hiram on World's War xxxv. 246 The Sultan's Grand Army had gone all to sticks. 1933 Creston (Iowa) News Advertiser 3 Apr. 1/1 Thousands of institutions..have gone to sticks because they were trying to make a dividend on the amount of money paid for their stocks. 1947 Creston (Iowa) News Advertiser 14 Oct. 2/3 Production declined; business went to sticks. < as lemmas |
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