| 单词 | to take one's tap in one's lap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take one's tap in one's lap ΚΠ 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 9 ‘And does your Honour think,’ said Jeanie, ‘that will do as weel as I were to take my tap in my lap, and slip my ways hame again?’ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Tap To Tak one's Tap in one's Lap, and set aff, to turse up one's baggage, and be gone..from the practice of those females..accustomed to spin from a rock, [who] often carried their work with them to the house of some neighbour. 1891 J. M. Barrie Little Minister I. ix. 156 They had to up wi' their tap in their lap and march awa. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 303 Ti take yin's tap in yin's lap (an' set off), to pack up (and depart). < as lemmas |
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