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单词 to get the shift
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to get the shift
slang. Originally: sexual intercourse; an act or instance of this. Now chiefly (Irish English): kissing; sexual activity which stops short of intercourse; often in to get the shift. Cf. shift v. Additions.In early use frequently with punning allusion to other senses, esp. 6 and 10.
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1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding i. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 79 Prithee what haste, Secret? that I should put my self to bed with one I might make a shift with.
1739 Joe Miller's Jests §204 A young Gentlewoman who had married a very wild Spark..was innocently saying to him one Day, My Dear, I want some Shifts sadly. Shifts, Madam, replies he, D—me, how can that be, when we make so many every Day?
1833 ‘Job Halls’ & ‘Mike Hunt’ Lummy Chaunter 83 Job was put to the shift, yet never despair'd, For I always stand to, he often declar'd.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. 641 Young Stephen said indeed to his best remembrance they had but the one doxy between them and she of the stews to make shift with in delights amorous.
2020 @Danielobo148 5 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Feb. 2021) I wish Covid was a thing when I was in the early years of Secondary School, at least then I wouldn't have had to lie about getting the shift.
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