英语词汇“to run emptins”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to run (to) emptins and variants: to be reduced to using the poorest quality of material, people, etc.; to reach the worst part. Now rare.

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1826 New-Hampsh. Statesman & Concord Reg. 25 Mar. Administration ‘editors and printers’ must truly be running emptings if Noah and Hill are ‘among the best of all the batch’.

1847 W. G. Hammond Diary 9 July in Remembrance of Amherst (1946) 141 A young lady of most evident domestic manufacture, and gentleman of similar cut, were tête-à-tête in one corner: and whatever their conversation may have been before I entered, it most plainly ‘ran emptins’ afterward.

1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum 282 Runs a good deal to emptins in his preachin' though, they say.

1901 J. W. De Forest Downing Legends 195 An' when creation runs to emptins' When all the tribes of men an' sperrits Are jedged accordin' to their merits, You'll see yourselves as high as any, If Downing's word is worth a penny.

1922 Amer. Sheep Breeder Oct. 481/2 Sam thought he had run emptins, as our good old mother used to say, but we thought different and have persuaded him to write more.

单词	to run emptins
释义	> as lemmas to run (to) emptins b. to run (to) emptins and variants: to be reduced to using the poorest quality of material, people, etc.; to reach the worst part. Now rare. ΚΠ 1826 New-Hampsh. Statesman & Concord Reg. 25 Mar. Administration ‘editors and printers’ must truly be running emptings if Noah and Hill are ‘among the best of all the batch’. 1847 W. G. Hammond Diary 9 July in Remembrance of Amherst (1946) 141 A young lady of most evident domestic manufacture, and gentleman of similar cut, were tête-à-tête in one corner: and whatever their conversation may have been before I entered, it most plainly ‘ran emptins’ afterward. 1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum 282 Runs a good deal to emptins in his preachin' though, they say. 1901 J. W. De Forest Downing Legends 195 An' when creation runs to emptins' When all the tribes of men an' sperrits Are jedged accordin' to their merits, You'll see yourselves as high as any, If Downing's word is worth a penny. 1922 Amer. Sheep Breeder Oct. 481/2 Sam thought he had run emptins, as our good old mother used to say, but we thought different and have persuaded him to write more. extracted from emptingn. < as lemmas
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