单词 | to tell what to do with |
释义 | > as lemmasto tell (a person) what to do with (something) b. to tell (a person) what to do with (something); similarly to tell (a person) where to put (something), etc.Originally as an alternative to ‘to tell a person to stick it up his arse’ or similar. ΚΠ 1937 D. Fuchs Low Company ii. 108 Listen, I could tell you what you can do with your boy friend, only I'm a gentleman for the moment. 1946 M. Shulman Zebra Derby (1947) xxi. 133 Green, an upholsterer, said that he was through with upholstering and had told his old boss what to do with his old job. 1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard xii. 176 He had been going to tell Glenn what he could do with his job. 1968 M. Bragg Without City Wall ii. xxi. 207 You could tell the people at the hall what to do with that job of theirs. She'd had enough of being a servant. 1977 Listener 14 Apr. 483/2 Protestations that if the government did any such thing, the BBC would probably tell it where to stuff such an instruction. 2007 Esquire Nov. 132/3 If a restaurant tells you that they will need the table back at a certain time, tell them where to stick it. This evil trend needs to be quashed. < as lemmas |
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