英语词汇“to have a bone in one's leg”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) colloquial. to have a bone in one's leg (also arm)and variants: used as an obviously spurious excuse for not doing something or as an example of a non-existent ailment.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [phrase] > specific illness

to have a bone in one's leg (also arm)1614

to play (also act) possum1807

1614 T. Tuke New Ess. 77 If thy companions whistle, thou trudgest: But Christ cals thee, thou tarriest, thou findst excuses; there is a bone in thy legge, thou canst not come.

1634 W. S. Country-man's Commonw. 49 Many men would gripe at great matters, but they haue a bone in their armes which hinders them.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 203 I can't go, for I have a Bone in my Leg.

1844 A. Smith Fortunes Scattergood Family xxii. in Bentley's Misc. 16 4 Having successively stated that he was labouring under elephantiasis, with the additional infliction of a bone in his leg, and something green in his eye.

1906 Harper's Monthly Mag. June 95/2 David, I've got a bone in my arm; won't you carry a book for me?

1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder (1960) xiii. 168 I'm not going to bathe this morning, Miss Horton. I've got a bone in my leg.

1972 J. Gaythorne-Hardy Rise & Fall Brit. Nanny 350 ‘Play with me Nanny.’ ‘I've a bone in my leg.’

2018 @Okeating 21 Jan. in twitter.com (O. E. D. Archive) I won't go. I'm going to tell them I need to be excused because I've got a bone in my leg.

单词	to have a bone in one's leg
释义	> as lemmas to have a bone in one's leg (also arm) (b) colloquial. to have a bone in one's leg (also arm)and variants: used as an obviously spurious excuse for not doing something or as an example of a non-existent ailment. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [phrase] > specific illness to have a bone in one's leg (also arm)1614 to play (also act) possum1807 1614 T. Tuke New Ess. 77 If thy companions whistle, thou trudgest: But Christ cals thee, thou tarriest, thou findst excuses; there is a bone in thy legge, thou canst not come. 1634 W. S. Country-man's Commonw. 49 Many men would gripe at great matters, but they haue a bone in their armes which hinders them. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 203 I can't go, for I have a Bone in my Leg. 1844 A. Smith Fortunes Scattergood Family xxii. in Bentley's Misc. 16 4 Having successively stated that he was labouring under elephantiasis, with the additional infliction of a bone in his leg, and something green in his eye. 1906 Harper's Monthly Mag. June 95/2 David, I've got a bone in my arm; won't you carry a book for me? 1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder (1960) xiii. 168 I'm not going to bathe this morning, Miss Horton. I've got a bone in my leg. 1972 J. Gaythorne-Hardy Rise & Fall Brit. Nanny 350 ‘Play with me Nanny.’ ‘I've a bone in my leg.’ 2018 @Okeating 21 Jan. in twitter.com (O. E. D. Archive) I won't go. I'm going to tell them I need to be excused because I've got a bone in my leg. extracted from bonen.¹ < as lemmas
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