单词 | to hell around |
释义 | > as lemmasto hell around 2. intransitive. To hurry, to rush (see hell-for-leather at hell n. and int. Phrases 6e). to hell around: to mess around; to behave in a reckless or dissipated manner; to raise hell. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently > rush around scour1297 startlec1300 reelc1400 rammisha1540 gad1552 ramp1599 fling1620 to run rounda1623 rampage1791 to run around1822 to rip and tear1846 hella1864 running around like a chicken with its head cut off (also like a chicken with no head)1887 to haul ass1918 tear-arse1942 a1864 J. Clare Early Poems (1989) II. 504 Theyd won the game—& then pell melling As safes a button sent thee helling. 1897 O. Wister Lin McLean (1898) 60 A man was liable to go sporting and helling around till he waked up. 1928 J. P. McEvoy Show Girl 166 You were in the show business and throwing your best years away helling around. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 243 She had to come helling in there at twelve, worrying me about that letter. 1959 ‘E. Fenwick’ Long Way Down x. 83 Had his supper..just like he always did. I missed mine, helling up here this way. 1960 F. Sullivan Let. 9 Jan. in Groucho Lett. (1967) 147 That oppressed and downtrodden share-cropper, Massa Nunnally Johnson, is hellin' around with Ava Gardner, making a picture. 1991 J. Michael Sleeping Beauty xiii. 292 There I was, still helling around like a soldier on leave. 2003 Scunthorpe Evening Tel. (Nexis) 9 Apr. 3 They are 'helling' through and they don't want to take their foot off the throttle. < as lemmas |
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