英语词汇“to make a cousin of”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†P4. to make a cousin of: to deceive, mislead, or dupe (a person). Cf. sense A. 6. Obsolete.In quots. probably punning on sense A. 1b. [Apparently connected with cozen v., either as the phrase from which that verb arose, or as a play on the two words. For the latter, compare also the following:

1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood vii. sig. F2 And while his eares with brothers tearmes he feedes He prooueth but a Coosen in his deedes.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > cheat, swindle [phrase]

to pull a finchc1386

to wipe a person's nosea1475

to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523

to play fast and loose1557

to play false1576

to joint a person's nose of?1577

to make a cousin of1580

to sell smoke1589

munge1660

to sell (a person) a packet1886

to beat the count1897

to sell (a person) a pup1901

to hand (someone) a lemon1906

to sell (someone) a bill of goods1927

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 6 Cassander..determined with himselfe to make a Cosin of his young Nephew [apparently, by keeping him in the dark as to facts], vntil he had bought witte with the price of woe.

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. v. 78 in Church-hist. Brit. The said Sr. Henry Savill..at an Oxford Act..in meer merriment, (to try whether he could make Cousens of his Aunts Children herein) devised the story, far from any..mischievous intent to deceive posterity, but onely for present delight.

单词	to make a cousin of
释义	> as lemmas to make a cousin of †P4. to make a cousin of: to deceive, mislead, or dupe (a person). Cf. sense A. 6. Obsolete.In quots. probably punning on sense A. 1b. [Apparently connected with cozen v., either as the phrase from which that verb arose, or as a play on the two words. For the latter, compare also the following: 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood vii. sig. F2 And while his eares with brothers tearmes he feedes He prooueth but a Coosen in his deedes. ] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > cheat, swindle [phrase] to pull a finchc1386 to wipe a person's nosea1475 to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523 to play fast and loose1557 to play false1576 to joint a person's nose of?1577 to make a cousin of1580 to sell smoke1589 munge1660 to sell (a person) a packet1886 to beat the count1897 to sell (a person) a pup1901 to hand (someone) a lemon1906 to sell (someone) a bill of goods1927 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 6 Cassander..determined with himselfe to make a Cosin of his young Nephew [apparently, by keeping him in the dark as to facts], vntil he had bought witte with the price of woe. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. v. 78 in Church-hist. Brit. The said Sr. Henry Savill..at an Oxford Act..in meer merriment, (to try whether he could make Cousens of his Aunts Children herein) devised the story, far from any..mischievous intent to deceive posterity, but onely for present delight. extracted from cousinn.adj. < as lemmas
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