| 单词 | to make a kirk and a mill of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a kirk and (also or) a mill of Scottish colloquial. to make a kirk and (also or) a mill of: (a) to put to any use one wishes, to do what one likes with; (b) to make the best of. ΚΠ 1706 Full Acct. Proc. Court of Directors Company of Scotl. 32 They might now make a Kirk or a Mill of it, as they should think fit. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 252 Make a Kirk and a Mill of it, that is, make your best of it: It does not answer to the English, ‘Make a Hog or a Dog of it’: For that means, bring it either to one use, or another. 1823 J. Galt Entail I. xviii. 147 The property is my own conquesting..and surely I may make a kirk and a mill o't an I like. 1887 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Mona's Choice II. vii. 173 I doubt but the man I let the land to is just making a kirk and a mill of it. 1913 Hearst's Internat. Jan. 167/1 He could now starve New England, steal New England, or make a kirk and a mill of New England, as say the Scotch, whenever moved of some bilious or dyspeptic spirit to do so. 1999 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 29 Aug. 12 Thereafter, my classes and I settled down together and I was left to make a kirk or a mill o' it. < as lemmas |
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