英语词汇“to nail to the counter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. to nail (a fact, information, etc.) to the counter [in allusion to a former practice among shopkeepers of treating counterfeit coins in this way.] : to expose as false or spurious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > confound, confute [phrase]

bray1535

to beat the nail back1581

to nail (a fact, information, etc.) to the counter1842

to nail a lie (also charge, etc.)1843

to sew up one's stocking1859

to knock galley-west1875

to knock the bottom out of1875

to shoot down in flames1943

1839 Spirit of Times 8 June 157/2 A train of circumstantial evidence..by which to nail the author of the libel to the counter of the ‘Mirror’.]

1842 O. W. Holmes Med. Ess. in Wks. (1891) IX. 67 A few familiar facts..have been suffered to pass current so long that it is time they should be nailed to the counter.

1890 Spectator 9 Aug. 178/1 It was a good deed to nail all this to the counter.

1929 Pacific Affairs 2 212 The China Weekly Review..published a very subtle untruth, which it is important to nail to the counter at once.

1999 Independent (Nexis) 18 Nov. It was again the amazing power of eloquence, which helped the ‘rebel’ to nail to the counter and quash the canard effectively.

单词	to nail to the counter
释义	> as lemmas to nail (a fact, information, etc.) to the counter P2. to nail (a fact, information, etc.) to the counter [in allusion to a former practice among shopkeepers of treating counterfeit coins in this way.] : to expose as false or spurious. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > confound, confute [phrase] bray1535 to beat the nail back1581 to nail (a fact, information, etc.) to the counter1842 to nail a lie (also charge, etc.)1843 to sew up one's stocking1859 to knock galley-west1875 to knock the bottom out of1875 to shoot down in flames1943 1839 Spirit of Times 8 June 157/2 A train of circumstantial evidence..by which to nail the author of the libel to the counter of the ‘Mirror’.] 1842 O. W. Holmes Med. Ess. in Wks. (1891) IX. 67 A few familiar facts..have been suffered to pass current so long that it is time they should be nailed to the counter. 1890 Spectator 9 Aug. 178/1 It was a good deed to nail all this to the counter. 1929 Pacific Affairs 2 212 The China Weekly Review..published a very subtle untruth, which it is important to nail to the counter at once. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 18 Nov. It was again the amazing power of eloquence, which helped the ‘rebel’ to nail to the counter and quash the canard effectively. extracted from nailv. < as lemmas
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