| 单词 | to knock down ginger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto knock down ginger British. to knock down ginger: to play ‘knock down ginger’ (knock down ginger n. at knock-down adj. and n. Additions). Now chiefly historical. [Origin uncertain: see discussion at knock down ginger n. at knock-down adj. and n. Additions.] ΚΠ 1912 G. Acorn One of Multitude 49 Our mildest trick was ‘knocking down Ginger’, in other words running through street after street banging the knockers of the houses. 1923 S. Graham Under London 363 It was not amusing now to ‘knock down Ginger’ or throw stones and run away. 1981 T. Morgan in T. Thompson Edwardian Childhoods i. 23 We was always in big trouble for what we called knocking down ginger, you know. Big line of us, knocking at doors and running away. < as lemmas |
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