| 单词 | to open or shut shop-window |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto open or shut (up) (one's) shop-window to open or shut (up) (one's) shop-window and variants: to begin or close the business of the day; (also) to begin or give up business. Now rare.In quot. 1654 figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > work at specific times or periods [verb (intransitive)] > start work to open (one's) shop-windowc1478 society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > work at specific times or periods [verb (intransitive)] > stop work to shut (one's) shop-windowc1478 to shut up one's shop1560 unyoke1594 to put up the shutters1877 to shut down1877 strike1890 stand1892 to knock off1916 c1478 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 304 Some were disfraunchised, some imprysoned, some theire shop windows shutt downe. 1529 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xiv. 254 That no persone..presume to opyn his Shoppe wyndowes before he hath presented hymself to & before the Maysters or Gouerners of the sayde Mystere. 1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull iv. f. xliiiv Some of other occupations by theyr busy labours in the scriptures, hath shut vp the shoppe windowes, faine to take Sainctuary. 1654 J. Price Tyrants & Protectors 15 I have heard of a Bishop invited to one of their houses to dinner, and observing the Ladies naked back and brests, said to her to this purpose, Madam, it is time to shut up your shop-windows. 1776 G. Colman Spleen i. 2 I have been upon the scout ever since they opened the shop windows, and I'm as full of news as the Morning Chronicle. 1884 W. Urwick Nonconformity Herts. vi. 110 Some on holidays have opened their shop windows. 1999 G. Phillips Seven Cent. of Light ix. 122 The butchers..ignored Mayoral decrees to shut their shop windows and cease trading. < as lemmas |
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