| 单词 | to put the tin hat on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put the tin hat on 3. colloquial (chiefly British). to put the tin hat on something: to bring something to a (typically unwelcome) close or climax; to finish off, put an end to something; to be the last straw. Also (with on as adverb) to put the tin hat on. Cf. to put the lid on at lid n. 1e. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > bring to an end or conclude [verb (transitive)] yendc1000 abatec1300 finec1300 endc1305 finisha1375 definec1384 terminec1390 achievea1393 out-enda1400 terminate?a1425 conclude1430 close1439 to bring adowna1450 terma1475 adetermine1483 determine1483 to knit up1530 do1549 parclose1558 to shut up1575 expire1578 date1589 to close up1592 period1595 includea1616 apostrophate1622 to wind off1650 periodizea1657 dismiss1698 to wind up1740 to put the lid on1873 to put the tin hat on something1900 to wash up1925 1900 Evening News 21 Aug. 1/5 Now they have put the tin hat on it all [sc. a period of leave], and we are off where we will get more shells than beer. 1900 Western Mail (Cardiff) 17 Sept. 6/6 He manages to get together a good, strong combination [i.e. a football team],..and put the ‘tin hat’ on them with a vengeance. 1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 The shrapnel helmet was invariably a ‘tin hat’, and ‘to put the tin hat on it’ is..‘to ki-bosh it’. 1927 ‘Sapper’ Saving Clause i. 22 This second exhibition of cowardice had put the tin-hat on. 1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights vii. 225 It was the limit, he felt, the extreme edge. It put the tin hat on things. 1977 J. M. Johnson in J. D. Douglas & J. M. Johnson Existential Sociol. viii. 244 He reflected that, at the time, he thought his efforts had ‘put the tin hat on it’. 1998 Transport News Aug. 6/3 ‘April's increase on fuel duty put the tin hat on an already struggling operation,’ said Alister. ‘It was the last straw.’ 2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 385 His only new discovery is three huge sacks filled to the brim with girls' unmentionables... This puts the tin hat on it, as far as Ruprecht is concerned. < as lemmas |
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