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

c. to pick up a nail.

(a) Of a horse or a horse's foot: to stand on a nail, to injure the foot on a sharp object.

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1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children II. xviii. 218 He was taken out and picked up a nail. The consequence was he could not run.

1928 Cent. Mag. May 21/2 Instead of moving he took one unwilling step forward, then he stumbled and almost fell, for his forefoot had picked up a nail.

2000 Mother Earth News (Electronic ed.) 16 Feb. You know (we hope) that the inside of a horse's hoof—the frog—is soft and can easily pick up a stray nail.

(b) slang (chiefly U.S. and Caribbean). [With allusion to the limp of sufferers of certain of these diseases.] To catch a venereal disease.

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1938 Washington Post 24 Oct. 7/1 Parents..and doctors try to terrify adolescents into chastity by describing the horrors of venereal disease... But in time..some of the young pick up a nail.

1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh iv. 236 You may be lucky for a long time, but you get nicked in the end. I picked up a nail from some tart in Altoona.

1974 S. Sadeek Bundarie Boy 70 S2. Why cash for the Doc? S1. Me pick-up a nail.

1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 212 Their complaints were run-of-the-mill stuff: a strain, a pulled tendon,..fear of having ‘picked up a nail’ from some local prostitute when on leave.

单词	to pick up a nail
释义	> as lemmas to pick up a nail c. to pick up a nail. (a) Of a horse or a horse's foot: to stand on a nail, to injure the foot on a sharp object. ΚΠ 1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children II. xviii. 218 He was taken out and picked up a nail. The consequence was he could not run. 1928 Cent. Mag. May 21/2 Instead of moving he took one unwilling step forward, then he stumbled and almost fell, for his forefoot had picked up a nail. 2000 Mother Earth News (Electronic ed.) 16 Feb. You know (we hope) that the inside of a horse's hoof—the frog—is soft and can easily pick up a stray nail. (b) slang (chiefly U.S. and Caribbean). [With allusion to the limp of sufferers of certain of these diseases.] To catch a venereal disease. ΚΠ 1938 Washington Post 24 Oct. 7/1 Parents..and doctors try to terrify adolescents into chastity by describing the horrors of venereal disease... But in time..some of the young pick up a nail. 1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh iv. 236 You may be lucky for a long time, but you get nicked in the end. I picked up a nail from some tart in Altoona. 1974 S. Sadeek Bundarie Boy 70 S2. Why cash for the Doc? S1. Me pick-up a nail. 1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 212 Their complaints were run-of-the-mill stuff: a strain, a pulled tendon,..fear of having ‘picked up a nail’ from some local prostitute when on leave. extracted from pickv.¹ < as lemmas
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