| 单词 | under the cosh |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder the cosh a. A stout stick, bludgeon or truncheon; a length of metal used as a life-preserver; also (dialect), a stick; a school cane; a caning. under the cosh, at one's mercy, helpless. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] sowelc893 treec893 cudgelc897 stinga900 bat?c1225 sticka1275 clubc1275 truncheon14.. bourdonc1325 bastona1400 warderera1400 plantc1400 kibble1411 playloomc1440 hurlbatc1450 ploykc1450 rung1491 libberlac1500 waster1533 batonc1550 macana1555 libbet1562 bastinado1574 crab-tree comb1593 tomahawkc1612 billeta1616 wiper1622 batoon1637 gibbeta1640 crab-bat1647 kibbo1688 Indian club1694 batterdasher1696 crab-stick1703 bloodwipea1705 bludgeon1730 kierie1731 oaken towel1739 crab1740 shillelagh1772 knobstick1783 pogamogganc1788 whirlbat1791 nulla-nulla1798 waddy1800 kevel1807 supple1815 mere1820 hurlet1825 knobkerrie1826 blackthorn1829 bastera1833 twig1842 leangle1845 alpeen1847 banger1849 billy1856 thwack-stave1857 clump1868 cosh1869 nulla1878 sap1899 waddy1899 blunt instrument1923 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > there is danger in a course of action [phrase] > unprotected > helpless over a barrel1939 under the cosh1958 1869 F. Henderson Six Years in Prisons Eng. vii. 76 The coshman (a man who carries a ‘cosh’ or life preserver). 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 129 Cosh, a neddy, a life-preserver; any short, loaded bludgeon. a1889 in Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang (1889) (at cited word) The officer..sought to give the finishing coup de grâce with his cosh. 1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 83 Words which I have been accustomed to hear in common use... Cosh,..a stick. 1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago i The cosh was a foot length of iron rod, with a knob at one end, and a hook (or a ring) at the other. 1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. at Cosh A caning at school. War[wickshire]. You will get the cosh. 1904 Daily Chron. 29 Sept. 4/5 ‘Coshes’—pieces of lead pipe, known to the police as life-preservers. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 64 Cosh, the bludgeon carried by night patrols men and trench raiders. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 138 Kosh, a name for a trench club, or knobkerry, used in trench raids. 1927 Weekly Disp. 23 Oct. 4 A truncheon, or, in prison vernacular, ‘kosh’. 1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights i. 37 In the nick where you are under the cosh..most of the screws seem to take a sadistic delight in makeing [sic] things as uncomfortable as they can for you. 1959 ‘M. Ainsworth’ Murder is Catching i. 19 Clench a newspaper over a handful of coins and you've got a comfortable little cosh. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvii. 374 Amongst children one of the most common names for the cane is ‘the cosh’. 1960 Observer 24 Jan. 7/2 As for the Criminal Justice Act, it could be very useful to have all the villains under the cosh, as they expressed it. It made it much easier to get information. 1965 Spectator 15 Jan. 67/1 All chains gone from the boys' lavatories to make coshes. < as lemmas |
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