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

Phrases

P1. slang. Phrases with gaiters.

a. all (also everything) is gas and gaiters: everything is satisfactory; all is well.In quot. 1839 part of an extended comic passage in which the speaker, who is supposed to be of unsound mind, makes a series of nonsensical statements (requesting ‘bottled lightning’, ‘a thunder sandwich’, and ‘a fricassee of boot-tops and goldfish sauce’, among other things); subsequently taken up more generally from this passage in Dickens.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [phrase]

to rightsc1330

all (also everything) is gas and gaiters1839

(as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie1855

(as) right as rain1891

everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy)1898

she'll be right1947

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xlix. 489 She is come at last—at last—and all is gas and gaiters!

1880 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 31 Aug. 6/2 The south will be paid for its slaves, the confederate debt will be assumed, confederate soldiers will be pensioned and all will be gas and gaiters.

1925 A. Christie Secret of Chimneys xiii. 124 I've only got to get hold of dear old Stylptitch's Reminiscences..and all will be gas and gaiters.

1947 P. G. Wodehouse Joy in Morning xvi. 130 She said she was sorry she had been cross. I said ‘There, there!’ and everything is once more gas and gaiters.

2008 School Libr. Jrnl. Rev. (Nexis) 1 Aug. 99 Gentle messages abound, and all is gas and gaiters at the finish, with the constantly jeering Blue-Tongued Skink getting his comeuppance.

b. gas and gaiters: pompousness, verbosity. Cf. sense A. 5. Now rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > pomposity

stiltedness1828

pomposity1841

gas and gaiters1856

pompousness1870

1856 Argus (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 5/7 ‘Austral’ may vent his virtuous indignation on pagan immigrants..but it is all vox et præterea nihil—colonially translated, ‘gas and gaiters’.

1895 Rev. of Rev. May 599/2 We get the notion that the dramatist's taste and ability for scientific research, which have obtained such solemn acknowledgment in Le Temps and the Revue des Revues, are so much ‘gas and gaiters’.

1923 A. C. Benson Trefoil iii. 26 My father was profoundly irritated by him, and..said something..about ‘gas and gaiters’ which seemed to us a harsh description of so pretty a man.

1968 H. Hill Let. 8 Jan. in J. S. Smith Spy in Bookshop (2006) 70 I must anyway stop gassing, especially knowing how much gas and gaiters you have to endure.

P2. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) to give (a person) gas and variants: to subject (a person) to ridicule or abuse; to taunt or tease (a person).

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1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Gas, ‘To give a person gas’, to scold him or give him a good beating.

1949 N. Algren Man with Golden Arm i. 81 It's just since you come back you're givin' me gas, Frankie. You never used to give me gas before.

1972 G. V. Higgins Friends Eddie Coyle xi. 71 I'm giving him a little gas, you know, one thing and another.

2001 M. M. Waldrop Dream Machine 382 I was always giving him gas for the unreliability of his prototypes.

P3.

gas and air n. Medicine a mixture of nitrous oxide gas and air or oxygen, administered by inhalation to provide pain relief, esp. during labour.Frequently as a modifier.

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1934 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 May 914/1 In twenty-seven of the cases the gas-and-air was given only for the second stage of labour.

1959 Woman 16 May 23/2 An officious nurse plonked down a gas and air mask on my face.

1993 F. Weldon Trouble 175 I don't want to hold my birth partner's hand, I want gas-and-air and an epidural and a nurse I've never met.

2010 D. Devonshire Wait for Me! x. 139 For this last confinement, Dr Evans had borrowed a contraption called a gas and air machine, used as an analgesic in childbirth.

P4. to cook with gas: see cook v.¹ Phrases 3.

P5. to take gas.

a. U.S. colloquial. To be the subject of ridicule or abuse.

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1959 H. Searls Big X ii. iii. 131 The White House is on the phone and Congress goes into special session and the aircraft company declares bankruptcy, and everybody's taking gas when the president calls in the little engineer.

1977 Black Belt Apr. 82/3 I took a lot of gas on it but everything I pointed out then is accepted throughout the world. They don't laugh now.

1981 G. Wolf Who censored Roger Rabbit xxxiii 176 I try and save this dopey rabbit some grief, and I take gas for it.

2001 J. Scalzo Amer. Dirt Track Racer 125/2 Poor Rutt, forever taking gas for something—merely stated that he was quitting racing because he believed speeds were too high.

b. Surfing slang. To be thrown from a surfboard by a wave; to ‘wipe out’.

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1963 Time 9 Aug. 49/2 To ‘take gas’ or ‘wipe out’ is to lose a board in the curl of a wave.

1969 P. L. Dixon Men who ride Mountains vii. 100 I guess I rode all right, only took gas once, but that was enough.

1990 B. Jenkins N. Shore Chrons. 61 Foo first surfed Waimea in 1977. He remembers taking horrendous gas on his first wave when Shaun Tomson dropped in on him.

2007 S. Pike Surfing S. Afr. iv. 73/1 The pros were astounded at the power of the Outer Kom, with some competitors undergunned and taking gas in the hard-breaking 12- to 15-foot lefthanders.

单词	to take gas
释义	> as lemmas to take gas Phrases P1. slang. Phrases with gaiters. a. all (also everything) is gas and gaiters: everything is satisfactory; all is well.In quot. 1839 part of an extended comic passage in which the speaker, who is supposed to be of unsound mind, makes a series of nonsensical statements (requesting ‘bottled lightning’, ‘a thunder sandwich’, and ‘a fricassee of boot-tops and goldfish sauce’, among other things); subsequently taken up more generally from this passage in Dickens. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [phrase] to rightsc1330 all (also everything) is gas and gaiters1839 (as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie1855 (as) right as rain1891 everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy)1898 she'll be right1947 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xlix. 489 She is come at last—at last—and all is gas and gaiters! 1880 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 31 Aug. 6/2 The south will be paid for its slaves, the confederate debt will be assumed, confederate soldiers will be pensioned and all will be gas and gaiters. 1925 A. Christie Secret of Chimneys xiii. 124 I've only got to get hold of dear old Stylptitch's Reminiscences..and all will be gas and gaiters. 1947 P. G. Wodehouse Joy in Morning xvi. 130 She said she was sorry she had been cross. I said ‘There, there!’ and everything is once more gas and gaiters. 2008 School Libr. Jrnl. Rev. (Nexis) 1 Aug. 99 Gentle messages abound, and all is gas and gaiters at the finish, with the constantly jeering Blue-Tongued Skink getting his comeuppance. b. gas and gaiters: pompousness, verbosity. Cf. sense A. 5. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > pomposity stiltedness1828 pomposity1841 gas and gaiters1856 pompousness1870 1856 Argus (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 5/7 ‘Austral’ may vent his virtuous indignation on pagan immigrants..but it is all vox et præterea nihil—colonially translated, ‘gas and gaiters’. 1895 Rev. of Rev. May 599/2 We get the notion that the dramatist's taste and ability for scientific research, which have obtained such solemn acknowledgment in Le Temps and the Revue des Revues, are so much ‘gas and gaiters’. 1923 A. C. Benson Trefoil iii. 26 My father was profoundly irritated by him, and..said something..about ‘gas and gaiters’ which seemed to us a harsh description of so pretty a man. 1968 H. Hill Let. 8 Jan. in J. S. Smith Spy in Bookshop (2006) 70 I must anyway stop gassing, especially knowing how much gas and gaiters you have to endure. P2. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) to give (a person) gas and variants: to subject (a person) to ridicule or abuse; to taunt or tease (a person). ΚΠ 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Gas, ‘To give a person gas’, to scold him or give him a good beating. 1949 N. Algren Man with Golden Arm i. 81 It's just since you come back you're givin' me gas, Frankie. You never used to give me gas before. 1972 G. V. Higgins Friends Eddie Coyle xi. 71 I'm giving him a little gas, you know, one thing and another. 2001 M. M. Waldrop Dream Machine 382 I was always giving him gas for the unreliability of his prototypes. P3. gas and air n. Medicine a mixture of nitrous oxide gas and air or oxygen, administered by inhalation to provide pain relief, esp. during labour.Frequently as a modifier. ΚΠ 1934 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 May 914/1 In twenty-seven of the cases the gas-and-air was given only for the second stage of labour. 1959 Woman 16 May 23/2 An officious nurse plonked down a gas and air mask on my face. 1993 F. Weldon Trouble 175 I don't want to hold my birth partner's hand, I want gas-and-air and an epidural and a nurse I've never met. 2010 D. Devonshire Wait for Me! x. 139 For this last confinement, Dr Evans had borrowed a contraption called a gas and air machine, used as an analgesic in childbirth. P4. to cook with gas: see cook v.¹ Phrases 3. P5. to take gas. a. U.S. colloquial. To be the subject of ridicule or abuse. ΚΠ 1959 H. Searls Big X ii. iii. 131 The White House is on the phone and Congress goes into special session and the aircraft company declares bankruptcy, and everybody's taking gas when the president calls in the little engineer. 1977 Black Belt Apr. 82/3 I took a lot of gas on it but everything I pointed out then is accepted throughout the world. They don't laugh now. 1981 G. Wolf Who censored Roger Rabbit xxxiii 176 I try and save this dopey rabbit some grief, and I take gas for it. 2001 J. Scalzo Amer. Dirt Track Racer 125/2 Poor Rutt, forever taking gas for something—merely stated that he was quitting racing because he believed speeds were too high. b. Surfing slang. To be thrown from a surfboard by a wave; to ‘wipe out’. ΚΠ 1963 Time 9 Aug. 49/2 To ‘take gas’ or ‘wipe out’ is to lose a board in the curl of a wave. 1969 P. L. Dixon Men who ride Mountains vii. 100 I guess I rode all right, only took gas once, but that was enough. 1990 B. Jenkins N. Shore Chrons. 61 Foo first surfed Waimea in 1977. He remembers taking horrendous gas on his first wave when Shaun Tomson dropped in on him. 2007 S. Pike Surfing S. Afr. iv. 73/1 The pros were astounded at the power of the Outer Kom, with some competitors undergunned and taking gas in the hard-breaking 12- to 15-foot lefthanders. extracted from gasn.¹adj. < as lemmas
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