单词 | two shakes of a lamb's tail |
释义 | > as lemmastwo shakes of a lamb's tail f. two shakes of a lamb's tail (and variants): see shake n.1 2h. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant hand-whileOE prinkOE start-while?c1225 twinkling1303 rese?c1335 prick1340 momenta1382 pointa1382 minutea1393 instant1398 braida1400 siquarea1400 twink14.. whip?c1450 movement1490 punct1513 pissing whilea1556 trice1579 turning of a hand1579 wink1585 twinklec1592 semiquaver1602 punto1616 punctilio of time1620 punctum1620 breathing1625 instance1631 tantillation1651 rapc1700 crack1725 turning of a straw1755 pig's whisper1780 jiffy1785 less than no time1788 jiff1797 blinka1813 gliffy1820 handclap1822 glimpsea1824 eyewink1836 thought1836 eye-blink1838 semibreve1845 pop1847 two shakes of a lamb's taila1855 pig's whistle1859 time point1867 New York minute1870 tick1879 mo?1896 second1897 styme1897 split-second1912 split minute1931 no-time1942 sec.1956 a1855 J. F. Kelly Humors of Falconbridge (1856) 137 In the wag of a dead lamb's tail. 1901 Dial. Notes 2 142 ‘I'll do it in three jerks of a lamb's tail,’ i.e., very quickly. 1901 Dial. Notes 2 429 She got all cleared up in the whisk of a lamb's tail. 1917 Dial. Notes 4 402 Two jerks of a lamb's tail, n. phr., an instant, a jiffy. < as lemmas |
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