| 单词 | to make buckle and tongue meet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make buckle and tongue meet b. Phrases. †to come to buckle and bare thong: to be stripped of everything. †to turn the buckle of the girdle (see quots.). to cover the buckle: to dance (a particular step). †to hold or bring (bare) buckle and thong together (in U.S., to make buckle and tongue meet): to make both ends meet. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > be or become extremely poor not to have a shirtc1405 to come to buckle and bare thong1546 to arrive at one's fingers' ends1579 to have most fingers1677 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (intransitive)] > live within one's means to cut one's cloth according to one's calling1546 to hold or bring (bare) buckle and thong together1600 to cut and contrive1854 to make buckle and tongue meet1859 the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > be patient [verb (intransitive)] to take (something) as it comesc1350 patient1561 patience1596 to turn the buckle of the girdle1606 thole1674 society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [verb (intransitive)] > steps cut1603 heel1609 coupee1690 chassé1803 pigeon-wing1823 glissade1837 high-kicka1850 to cover the buckle1852 reverse1859 sashay1905 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. viii. sig. Kiiv He at length came to buckle and bare thong. 1600 Weakest goeth to Wall sig. E2 My benefice doth bring me in no more But what will hold bare buckle and thong together. 1606 N. Breton Poste with Packet Madde Lett. (new ed.) II. sig. H3 If you bee angrie, turne the buckle of youre girdle behinde you. 1656 O. Cromwell Speech 17 Sept. If any man be angry at it,—I am plain, and shall use an homely expression: Let him turn the buckle of his girdle behind him! If this were to be done again, I would do it. 1675 Pepys Ballads (1930) III. 12 Hold Buckle and Thong together. 1732 T. Fuller Gnomologia 100 He'll bring buckle and thong together. 1852 C. Reade Peg Woffington viii. 131 Woffington covered the buckle in gallant style; she danced, the children danced. 1859 H. E. Taliaferro Fisher's River 249 All they cared for was ‘to make buckle and tongue meet’ by raising stock..and a little corn for bread. 1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 703/1 Beginning without money, he had as much as he could do to make ‘buckle and tongue meet’, as the phrase goes. < as lemmas |
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