| 单词 | to do the grand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do the grand ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] brandishc1340 ruffle1484 braga1556 swash1556 flourish1563 flaunt1566 prank1567 prink1573 to shake, wag the feather1581 peacockize1598 air1605 display1608 to launch it out1608 flasha1616 to cut it out1619 flare1633 vapour1652 peacock1654 spark1676 to gallantrize it1693 bosh1709 glare1712 to cut a bosh1726 to show away1728 to figure away, off1749 parade1749 to cut a dashc1771 dash1786 to cut up1787 to cut a flash1795 to make, or cut, a splash1804 swank1809 to come out strong1825 to cut a spludge1831 to cut it (too) fat1836 pavonize1838 splurge1844 to do the grand1847 to cut a swath1848 to cut a splurge1860 to fan out1860 spread1860 skyre1871 fluster1876 to strut one's stuff1926 showboat1937 floss1938 style1968 1847 A. Smith Nat. Hist. Gent viii. 52 You will find them either endeavouring to ‘do the grand’, by not joining in the current amusements of the evening; or overstepping all bounds of ordinary behaviour—‘going it’, to use their own words—and committing every kind of preposterous and silly offence. 1872 A. Clyde Te Kooti 39 I would do the ‘grand’, Like any other swell. 1894 C. J. O'Regan Voices of Wave & Tree 11 Men now..dress fine, and do the grand, For the age of digger's shirts has passed away. 1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing in L. E. Sullivan Bandits & Bibles (2003) 194 I did the grand to Chicago and filled in with a yeg mob... I purchased a first-class ticket to Chicago and met a gang of safe burglars whom I joined. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 167 Do the grand. Hock in green glasses. Swell blowout. < as lemmas |
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