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单词 to keep a quarter
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to keep a (bad, etc.) quarter
b. to keep a (bad, etc.) quarter : to maintain a (bad, etc.) state of things, to behave in a (specified) manner; (hence without adjective) to make a noise or disturbance. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [verb (transitive)]
to keep a (bad, etc.) quarter1632
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [verb (intransitive)] > uproar or tumult
clamourc1400
rumblec1405
shout1513
racket1617
to keep a (bad, etc.) quarter1632
to raise a dust1649
obstreperate1765
row1797
uproar1834
to raise Cain1840
to raise the mischief1840
to raise (also lift) the roof1845
steven1855
tow-row1877
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 88 The Souldiers kept a bloody quarter among themselues.
1659 Commw. Ball. (Percy Soc.) 150 For all you kept such a quarter, you are out of the councell of state.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 29 Jan. (1976) IX. 42 They had fiddlers and danced and kept a quarter; which pleased me (though it disturbed me).
1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 39 They keep a huge quarter when they carry it into the Cellar.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ What a quarter they keep in the market.
1760 G. Baretti Dict. Eng. & Ital. Lang. II. (at cited word) To keep a heavy quarter, fare un grande strepito.
extracted from quartern.
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