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单词 to turn a wheel
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to turn a wheel
q. to turn a wheel: (of a vehicle) to move or be set in motion; figurative (of a person or thing) to move forward, to make progress, to begin working (chiefly North American regional). Usually in negative constructions, as can't turn a wheel, won't turn a wheel, etc.
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the world > movement > move [verb (intransitive)] > set in motion
to turn a wheel1849
to set on1855
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make progress or advance (of action or operation)
fremec1000
furtherc1200
profit1340
to go onc1449
grow1487
to commence to, intoa1500
framea1529
to get ground?1529
movec1540
work1566
promove1570
advance1577
devolve1579
to come on1584
progress1612
to gain ground1625
germinate1640
proceed1670
to gather ground1697
march1702
to make its way1711
to come forward1722
develop1744
to turn a wheel1864
shape1865
come1899
1849 Rep. Deb. & Proc. Convent. for Revision Constit. State of Kentucky 833/2 The old carriage that..has not turned a wheel for years, is taxed just as much as that which is running in all the splendor of novelty.
1864 N. Y. Times 19 Mar. 1/1 Your Convention assembled can do nothing more toward realizing the end in view than your Legislature or your Governor can accomplish. It can't turn a wheel.
1920 F. Lynde Girl, Horse & Dog ix. 158 You said a minute ago that I couldn't turn a wheel without your consent. You can't turn a wheel at all—without money.
1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (online ed., accessed 6 May 2021) at Turn Was it the first of June it started raining? We didn't turn a wheel for almost three weeks.
2001 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 21 Jan. a11 He is a proponent of the ‘farm sabbatical’ program that is now calling on farmers in both Canada and the United States to simply not plant a crop in 2001... ‘We won't turn a wheel,’ he said. ‘Everything will shut down.’
2009 Classic Tractor Sept. 81/1 I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that one day I'll stumble across the ultimate barn-find—a low-hour 7000 [tractor] that hasn't turned a wheel for 20 years.
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