单词 | to give gas |
释义 | > as lemmasto give (a person) gas P2. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) to give (a person) gas and variants: to subject (a person) to ridicule or abuse; to taunt or tease (a person). ΚΠ 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Gas, ‘To give a person gas’, to scold him or give him a good beating. 1949 N. Algren Man with Golden Arm i. 81 It's just since you come back you're givin' me gas, Frankie. You never used to give me gas before. 1972 G. V. Higgins Friends Eddie Coyle xi. 71 I'm giving him a little gas, you know, one thing and another. 2001 M. M. Waldrop Dream Machine 382 I was always giving him gas for the unreliability of his prototypes. < as lemmas |
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