| 单词 | to saw gourds |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto saw gourds 3. transferred. With reference to the sound made by sawing; to saw gourds, etc., to snore loudly. slang (originally U.S.). ΚΠ 1870 F. H. Ludlow Heart of Continent ii. 91 In five minutes..we were all ‘sawing gourds’ together in the land of Nod. a1897 ‘R. Sanders’ Sketches Country Life (1898) xxx. 188 When the day's work is done..he can draw his bobtail night shirt about him..knowin that while he sleeps and dreams and saws gourds his worldly possessions are growin. 1939 J. Worby Spiv's Progress ii. 12 I've been in the town and got the grub while you've been sawing them off. 1946 Penguin New Writing 28 184 The deaf-mute was asleep and sawing them off horribly. 1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1259/2 Saw them off, to snore; to sleep soundly... Ex the noise made with a saw clumsily handled. 1980 A. Fox Kingfisher Scream iii. 49 Rosemary would be asleep too now, with Don sawing wood beside her. < as lemmas |
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