| 单词 | to play one's paws |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play one's paws A slight movement or motion; an action, a deed. Also: a breath. to play a paw: to play a trick. to play one's paws: to play one's part in acting or in life. (not) to play paw: (not) to make the slightest movement, (not) to lift a finger. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > play tricks [phrase] to do or make a blenk or blencha1250 to play (a person) a pageant1530 to give one the geck1568 to play a paw1568 to draw through the water with a cat1631 come1714 to run one's rig upon1793 to come (the) paddy over1809 to work a traverse1840 to go on, have, take a lark1884 to pull a fast one1912 to take for a ride1925 to pull a person's pissera1935 to pull a person's chain1975 the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] darec1220 (not) to play paw?a1700 not to move a muscle1843 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxv. 14 Remane with me and tary still And se quha playis best thair pawis. 1689 Memorable Battle Killy Crankie (single sheet) They thought the D—l had been there, That gave them such a Paw then. ?a1700 Jock o' Side xiv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 480/1 His neck in twa I wat they hae wrung, Wi hand or foot he neer playd paw. 1715 in J. Hogg Jacobite Relics (1821) II. 4 And then in a tether he'll swing from a ladder, And go off the stage with a pa', man. 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 313/2 Some day when ye couldna play paw to help yoursels. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. Paw, ti play paw, to make the slightest motion. 1962 New Shetlander No. 63. 29 A ‘batt a wind’ is a peerie breeze, an a ‘pirr’ and ‘pyaa’ joost a braeth. 1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. at Pyaa Dey wir hardly a pyaa atil him whin we fann him ida hill. < as lemmas |
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