| 单词 | to go round robin hood's barn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go round Robin Hood's barn Chiefly U.S. round Robin Hood's barn and variants: by a circuitous or tortuous route (literal and figurative); ‘round the houses’. Frequently in to go round Robin Hood's barn. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [phrase] > by indirect route round about1681 round Robin Hood's barn1797 1797 M. L. Weems in P. L. Ford Mason Locke Weems (1929) II. 77 I can sell them abundantly fast without the trouble of going round Robin Hood's barn. a1854 J. F. Kelly Humors of Falconbridge (1856) 220 The way some folks have of going round ‘Robin Hood's barn’ to come at a thing. 1878 Notes & Queries 22 June 486/2 ‘Where have you been today?’ ‘All round Robin Hood's barn! I have been all about the country, first here and then there.’ 1928 S. Lewis Man who knew Coolidge 17 When it came to talking, why say, he wandered all round Robin Hood's barn! 1934 E. M. Rhodes Beyond Desert 201 Wagon-road goes all around Robin Hood's barn to get to my place. 1977 Time 31 Jan. 1/3 Your article on birth control goes around Robin Hood's barn for an answer to the birth control problem. 2005 Boston Globe (Nexis) 31 May f1 The plot eases out of Start and then bucks and shifts and takes you all over Robin Hood's barn. < as lemmas |
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