| 单词 | to take the monkey off one's back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take the monkey off one's back a. To be angry. Also to take the monkey off one's back.Quot. 1805 seems to refer to apish behaviour rather than anger. ΚΠ 1805 C. Wilmot Let. 24 Sept. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 194 Tho' the French manners are appropriate to themselves I can't endure the singerie of Bruin when he frolicks with the Monkey on his back.] 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) (at cited word) A man is said to have his monkey up, or the monkey on his back, when he is ‘riled’, or out of temper. 1886 H. Baumann Londinismen at Monkey Take the monkey off your back, beruhige dich, werde nur nicht so zornig! to take the monkey off one's back b. slang (originally U.S.). To be addicted to drugs, have a drug habit; (in quot. 1942) to suffer withdrawal symptoms. Hence to take the monkey off one's back: to give up drugs, overcome drug addiction; to calm down. ΚΠ 1938 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 29 272 Monkey: a habit, as in ‘I have a monkey on my back.’ Usually used when one is sick for lack of drugs. 1939 H. Heath et al. (title of record) You can't put that monkey on my back. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §509/28 Have a Chinaman or monkey on one's back, to manifest withdrawal distress. 1970 E. R. Johnson God Keepers (1971) vi. 68 Having a monkey on your back..always worked out logically to be the first purpose in a junkie's life. 1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) vi. 75 Young, middle-class white men returned to their homes and families with the heroin monkey on their backs. < as lemmas |
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