| 单词 | to have a log to roll |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a log to roll b. figurative and in similative phrases. Said, e.g., of a vessel floating helplessly (cf. modern German log sein to float helplessly), of an inert or helpless person. †a log in one's way: a stumbling-block, obstacle. to have a log to roll: see log-rolling n. as easy (or simple) as falling (or rolling) off a log. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > one who phlegmatic?1541 drumble1568 log1579 phlegmatist1599 lethargy1634 mooner1842 slowie1901 Oblomov1903 walking dead1980 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle hinderc1200 withsetting1340 obstaclec1385 traversea1393 mara1400 bayc1440 stoppagec1450 barrace1480 blocka1500 objecta1500 clog1526 stumbling-stone1526 bar1530 (to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548 stumbling-stock1548 hindrance1576 a log in one's way1579 crossbar1582 log1589 rub1589 threshold1600 scotch1601 dam1602 remora1604 obex1611 obstructiona1616 stumbling-blocka1616 fence1639 affront1642 retardance1645 stick1645 balk1660 obstruent1669 blockade1683 sprun1684 spoke1689 cross cause1696 uncomplaisance1707 barrier1712 obstruct1747 dike1770 abatis1808 underbrush1888 bunker1900 bump1909 sprag1914 hurdle1924 headwind1927 mudhole1933 monkey wrench1937 roadblock1945 the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase] with a wet finger1542 for the whistling1546 like a bird1825 as easy (or simple) as falling (or rolling) off a log1839 without tears1857 like a dream1882 as easy as winking1907 the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot [verb (intransitive)] > promote one's own interest to have a log to roll1865 1579–80 T. North tr. Annibal in Plutarch Lives (1595) 1148 Anniball..knew that this great ouerthrow..would also be a great logge in his way. c1600 Timon (1980) i. ii. 6 Thou logg thou stock, thou Arcadian beast. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iv. sig. I4v The saplesse logge, that prest thy bed With an vnpleasing waight. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lxi. 152 In this conflict, having lost all her Mastes, and being no other then a logge in the Sea. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xx. 71 The flapping sail haul'd down to halt for logs like these. 1839 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 29 Mar. 2/2 He gradually went away from the Lubber, and won the heat, ‘just as easy as falling off a log’. 1850 H. C. Watson Camp-fires Revol. 55 ‘Bill,’ said one of the party, to a pale, sickly-looking individual, ‘we must keep the log rollin'.’ 1865 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 5/2 The New York Daily News may have its log to roll and its axe to grind as well as other folks. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 156 I reckon ‘somebody's cut the log open’ as the saying is out here, from the way they are coming. c1880 ‘M. Twain’ Speeches (1923) 97 A man who could have elected himself Major-General Adam or anything else as easy as rolling off a log. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. vii. 59 I must have..slept like a log. 1898 Daily News 19 May 7/6 Mr. Gladstone..pathetically remarked that he was now like a log. 1900 Longman's Mag. June 134 [He] struck Bill who fell like a log on the dusty road. 1904 ‘A. Dale’ Wanted: Cook 207 It was so easy that the inelegant simile of ‘rolling off a log’ impressed me as being absolutely justifiable. 1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xvii. 223 I dropped into it by accident,..and that made it as easy as falling off a log. 1949 N. Marsh Swing, Brother, Swing iv. 67 Don't keep asking if I can understand things that are as simple as falling off a log. 1973 Times 10 Feb. 11/3 Acting? said Ernest Borgnine. Why, there was nothing to it, really. ‘For me,’ he said, ‘it's as easy as falling off a log.’ < as lemmas |
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