| 单词 | to push the bottle about |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto push the bottle about P2. to push the bottle about and variants: to push the liquor from one person to another when drinking convivially. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] > circulate drink troll1575 walk1581 to push the bottle about1697 send1770 birlea1800 1697 T. Brown in Earl of Rochester et al. Familiar Lett. (ed. 2) I. 195 A true Son of Bacchus never wants a good Reason to push about the Glass. 1781 J. Bentham Corr. (1968–81) III. 96 Ld. Dartry left us. It was he that pushed the bottle about. 1788 J. Woodforde Diary 20 Aug. (1927) III. 44 Mr. Atthill being Chairman pushed the Bottle about pretty briskly. 1828 C. Lamb Capt. Jackson in Elia 2nd Ser. 192 ‘Push about my boys;’ ‘Drink to your sweethearts, girls.’ 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. ii. 27 Come, Mim, push round the ale. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. iv. 55 Thomson could push the bottle like a regular bon vivant. 1904 A. B. Young Life & Novels T. L. Peacock 31 The squire's chief interest in the novel..seems to be mainly ‘pushing’ the bottle round. < as lemmas |
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