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单词 to wire into
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to wire into
7. intransitive. colloquial and regional. to wire in (also †away): to apply oneself energetically to something, to get to work with a will; spec. to set about a meal with avidity, ‘tuck in’. Also to wire into (a meal, etc.). Now chiefly Scottish. [Origin uncertain; compare:
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 341 Wire-in, a London street phrase in general use, which means to go in with a will. In its original form of ‘wire-in, and get your name up’, it was very popular among London professional athletes. The phrase is now general, and any one with a hard task before him, knows he must wire-in to bring matters to a successful issue.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically
to go to it1490
busklea1535
settle1576
to lay on1587
to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658
to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678
yark1721
to get going1822
to pitch in1835
to roll up one's sleeves1838
square1849
to clap on1850
to wire in (also away)1864
to dig in1884
hunker1903
tie into1904
to get cracking1937
to get stuck in1938
to get weaving1942
to get it on1954
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat heartily
twist1694
nyam1790
to wire into1894
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Wire-in, a London street phrase in general use at the present time.
1870 Daily News 16 Apr. We were politely told by Sandy to ‘wire in’—digger's phraseology for an invitation to commence.
1888 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 93 In one fashion or another he ‘keeps wiring away’.
1891 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Sydney-side Saxon vi I asked for work at the first station I came to, and though I was strange to it, I wired in with a will.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life II. 252 After wiring into a leg of mutton and rice-pudding, [I] turned into a..welcome bed.
1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland 351 To wire in is to begin work vigorously: to join in a fight.
1977 J. Boyle Sense of Freedom 4 By the time the fire got going, breakfast would be ready so we would all sit around the table and wire in.
1990 A. Spence Magic Flute 15 A wee jam session. Bye Bye Blackbird it was... We were wiring right into it. Giving it big licks.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 347/1 Wire into, to get on with, energetically.
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