| 单词 | to get one's skates on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get (or put) one's skates on (b) In slang (originally Military) phr. to get (or put) one's skates on, to hurry up (see also quot. 1925). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed rempeOE fuseOE rakeOE hiec1175 i-fusec1275 rekec1275 hastec1300 pellc1300 platc1300 startc1300 buskc1330 rapc1330 rapec1330 skip1338 firk1340 chase1377 raikc1390 to hie one's waya1400 catchc1400 start?a1505 spur1513 hasten1534 to make speed1548 post1553 hurry1602 scud1602 curry1608 to put on?1611 properate1623 post-haste1628 whirryc1630 dust1650 kite1854 to get a move on1888 to hump it1888 belt1890 to get (or put) one's skates on1895 hotfoot1896 to rattle one's dags1968 shimmy1969 1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Dec. 113 Get your skates on, hurry up. 1919 War Slang in Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 To evade duty or get clear, you ‘put your skates on’. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 260 Skates, to put on, to hurry up. Also to evade duty. To desert. 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxvi. 263 ‘Jack, guy for your b—— life. The Squad are here.’.. Said Jack: ‘I very soon put my skates on.’ 1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol ix. 54 It was Carlos telling me to get my skates on and down to the Doelen plenty chop-chop. 1976 W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Schoolgirls i. 33 I'd better be getting my skates on, I'm catching the night train and I haven't done a thing about getting ready. < as lemmas |
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