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

9. transitive. U.S. To renew the contact surface of (a gun flint) preparatory to firing a gun. Frequently figurative in to pick the (also one's) flint: to prepare to try again. Now rare.

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1833 T. Flint Daniel Boone 79 Boone, picking the flint of his rifle,..took aim at the panther.

1852 E. T. Freedley Pract. Treat. Business (1853) 202 Let him choose his time opportunely..let his request be moderate; and if he fails? 'Tis but in one case—pick your flint, and try elsewhere.

c1891 G. D. McLeod Stories Land of Evangeline ii. 71 Pauline..drew from the pistol the load, picked the flint, and carefully reloaded it.

1904 Washington Post 15 Dec. 6/4 He [sc. a Democrat] may pick his flint and try again in 1908, but..his methods of protest against the administration will be through the ballot, and not otherwise.

单词	to pick the flint
释义	> as lemmas to pick the (also one's) flint 9. transitive. U.S. To renew the contact surface of (a gun flint) preparatory to firing a gun. Frequently figurative in to pick the (also one's) flint: to prepare to try again. Now rare. ΚΠ 1833 T. Flint Daniel Boone 79 Boone, picking the flint of his rifle,..took aim at the panther. 1852 E. T. Freedley Pract. Treat. Business (1853) 202 Let him choose his time opportunely..let his request be moderate; and if he fails? 'Tis but in one case—pick your flint, and try elsewhere. c1891 G. D. McLeod Stories Land of Evangeline ii. 71 Pauline..drew from the pistol the load, picked the flint, and carefully reloaded it. 1904 Washington Post 15 Dec. 6/4 He [sc. a Democrat] may pick his flint and try again in 1908, but..his methods of protest against the administration will be through the ballot, and not otherwise. extracted from pickv.¹ < as lemmas
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