| 单词 | to go to battersea to be cut for the simples |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to Battersea to be cut for the simples The original allusion in to cut for the simples was probably to bloodletting as a medical procedure, although sometimes in later use punning reference to sense B. 4a is inferred, especially in the elaborated phrase to go to Battersea to be cut for the simples (see quot. 1785).extracted from simpleadj.n.adv.int.< as lemmas |
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