英语词汇“to travel on one's face”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. U.S. (now rare). to run one's face: to obtain credit by one's impudence, wits, or appearance. Also to travel on (also upon) one's face.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > take credit > obtain credit by impudence

to run one's face1839

1839 Spirit of Times 5 Oct. 368/3 The Picayune says there is a chap in New Orleans who has ‘run his face so often for drinks, that it is completely worn off’.

1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs v. 63 It was, therefore, time to ‘run his face’.

1856 Knickerbocker 48 504 [I] must travel on my face after this, when I want to go through the College.

1859 Yale Literary Mag. 25 60 If you have not a ready tongue, and cannot travel upon your face, you had better [etc.].

1886 W. D. Howells Indian Summer xii. 206 I'm obliged to you for offering to share your destitution with me. I must try to run my face with the landlord.

1909 Dental Digest 15 589 I started here $2,500.00 in debt, borrowed the money to pay the freight on my chair..and ran my face for one year's office rent.

单词	to travel on one's face
释义	> as lemmas to travel on (also upon) one's face d. U.S. (now rare). to run one's face: to obtain credit by one's impudence, wits, or appearance. Also to travel on (also upon) one's face. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > take credit > obtain credit by impudence to run one's face1839 1839 Spirit of Times 5 Oct. 368/3 The Picayune says there is a chap in New Orleans who has ‘run his face so often for drinks, that it is completely worn off’. 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs v. 63 It was, therefore, time to ‘run his face’. 1856 Knickerbocker 48 504 [I] must travel on my face after this, when I want to go through the College. 1859 Yale Literary Mag. 25 60 If you have not a ready tongue, and cannot travel upon your face, you had better [etc.]. 1886 W. D. Howells Indian Summer xii. 206 I'm obliged to you for offering to share your destitution with me. I must try to run my face with the landlord. 1909 Dental Digest 15 589 I started here $2,500.00 in debt, borrowed the money to pay the freight on my chair..and ran my face for one year's office rent. extracted from facen. < as lemmas
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