| 单词 | to row up salt river |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto row (someone) up Salt River b. figurative. In slang phrase to row (someone) up Salt River and variants, to defeat (a political opponent); to overcome, send to oblivion. Also with intransitive vb., to be defeated or overcome, to go to oblivion; to get drunk. Frequently in allusive and proverbial uses. Now rare.The simplest of the numerous explanations offered for this usage is that which connects it with sense 2a; see H. Sperber and J. N. Tidwell in Amer. Speech (1951) XXVI. 241–7. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat shendc893 overwinOE overheaveOE mate?c1225 to say checkmatea1346 vanquishc1366 stightlea1375 outrayc1390 to put undera1393 forbeat1393 to shave (a person's) beardc1412 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 adawc1440 supprisec1440 to knock downc1450 to put to the worsta1475 waurc1475 convanquish1483 to put out1485 trima1529 convince1548 foil1548 whip1571 evict1596 superate1598 reduce1605 convict1607 defail1608 cast1610 banga1616 evince1620 worst1646 conquer1655 cuffa1657 trounce1657 to ride down1670 outdo1677 routa1704 lurcha1716 fling1790 bowl1793 lick1800 beat1801 mill1810 to row (someone) up Salt River1828 defeat1830 sack1830 skunk1832 whop1836 pip1838 throw1850 to clean out1858 take1864 wallop1865 to sock it to1877 whack1877 to clean up1888 to beat out1893 to see off1919 to lower the boom on1920 tonk1926 clobber1944 ace1950 to run into the ground1955 1828 Reg. Deb. Congress U.S. 2 Feb. 1341 But, sir, I will venture to say this, that, in playing this game, if the Secretary of State is not influenced by the same courtesy which governed the courtiers of the great Frederick, never to beat the monarch at chess, that he could give the President twenty-nine, and as they say in Kentucky, ‘row him up salt river’. 1830 Cincinnati Chron. 2 Jan. 1/2 He replied he didn't ‘smoak me’, and unless I cut cable in short order, he'd roar me up salt river. 1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. ix. 77 See if I don't row you up Salt River before you are many days older. 1832 Spirit of Times 28 Apr. 3/1 He ‘rowed’ Stanberry ‘up a salt creek’, and is now being tried by the House of Representatives for his unlucky propensity. 1832 Washington (Ohio) Herald 17 Nov. 3/4 The Jackson boys of Ohio have been enabled to give them another ride ‘up Salt River’. 1835 D. Crockett Acct. Col. Crockett's Tour 46 [Judge Clayton] made a speech that fairly made the tumblers hop. He rowed the Tories up and over Salt river. 1838 Bentley's Misc. 4 588 I can drink till the world gets too old to move. While another man rows up Salt River, I'm only putting the fire out in the forest. 1838 Bentley's Misc. 4 588 Rowing up Salt River is a slang term for getting intoxicated. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To Row up Salt River, is a common phrase, used generally to signify political defeat. The distance to which a party is rowed up Salt river depends entirely upon the magnitude of the majority against its candidates. 1852 Chicago Democrat 11 Nov. One Thomas Holt, lately a clerk in The Chicago Post Office, when last seen,..was on his way up ‘Salt River’ with Gen. Scott. 1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. i. 28 We rowed him up to the very head waters of Salt River in no time. 1880 in J. C. Andrews Pittsburgh Post Gaz. (1936) xvi. 218 For Salt River—The River Boat Democracy left its Wharf Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1880 bound up Salt River in search of the late lamented Samuel J. Tilden. 1941 L. D. Baldwin Keelboat Age 97 It'd shore be harder'n rowin' up Salt River to find a cleverer parcel o' fellers 'n them keelers. < as lemmas |
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