| 单词 | under the ribs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder the ribs Phrases P1. under the ribs.With reference to the location of the heart and other vital organs within the rib cage. ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8782 Þat ufel is under his ribben þat ne mæi he noh libben. c1330 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Auch.) (1952) l. 348 Þis venim crepeþ vnder mi ribbe... Jn al þis ich gret dolour He dede feche al his tresour. b. figurative. In a vulnerable or sensitive place. Usually as part of an extended metaphor involving stabbing. ΚΠ 1840 T. De Quincey Style in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 395/1 If they presumed to put in a sly thrust under the ribs of the philosopher, those about Socrates..would kick them into the kennel. 1886 W. Todd 69th Highlanders xiv. 212 The failure of the enemy to press our line west of Centreville indicated that they would ‘likely move around and strike us under the ribs’. 1922 H. L. Wilson Merton of Movies xiv. 249 Honest, Jeff, that kid gets me under the ribs kind of. 1999 in D. Bolger Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel 172 A small jazz band played, deep throbbing tunes that quickly caught Detta under the ribs, jagged her heart. P2. to tickle (a person's) ribs and variants: (a) (ironically) to strike (a person) in the ribs; (b) to amuse (a person). Cf. rib-tickler n., rib-tickling adj. ΚΠ a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Eiij If ye call him mad-man, heel run after you, & tickle your ribs so with his flap of leather that he hath as it passeth. 1689 Irish Hudibras 88 A little Devil..always has her Rods in pickle, If they presume, their Ribs to tickle. 1825 ‘E. Hardcastle’ 29th May I. vi. 143 ‘I expected a royalist's sword whipped into my bowels.’ ‘Devil you did! he must wear a long cheese toaster who'd dare tickle your ribs.’ 1835 R. F. Williams Mephistophiles in Eng. II. iv. v. 97 Full of good stories and laughable squibs, So droll and so strange that they tickle one's ribs. 1898 W. Mathews Wit & Humor vii. 261 If a pun has tickled our ribs and given our cheeks a holiday,..it has done a good work. 1918 J. Munroe Mopping Up! xvi. 163 Ah, for the chance to tickle their cursed ribs with the cold steel! 1930 Times 18 Mar. 14/2 A great part of this Scottish humour..is primarily intended to tickle English ribs. 1997 I. S. Gilhus Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins vi. 117 Clean jokes may only tickle the ribs. Dangerous jokes, on the other hand, may strike to the heart while being very funny. P3. to stick to a person's (also the) ribs: (of food) to be nourishing and filling, to sustain a person for a long time. ΚΠ 1795 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 48 We require some food that will stick to the ribs. 1845 Times 27 Nov. 8 An old labourer..complained to his master that labourers feeding on potatoes could not now do so good a day's work... ‘Peas, Sir,’ said he, ‘stick to the ribs.’ 1987 Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 10/3 The dried pulses and beans and pearl barley that..are the mainstay of soups and stews which ‘stick to your ribs’. 2002 J. Grisham Summons (2003) xiv. 134 You got a long drive. Pancakes'll stick to your ribs. P4. to get into (also to be in) (a person's) ribs: to induce (someone) to incur an expense or loss, or to part with money; to approach (someone) for a loan, etc.Originally and chiefly in P. G. Wodehouse. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (intransitive)] > from someone to get into (also to be in) (a person's) ribs1923 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 23 Nov. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 30 We got into their ribs for a twelve-point rubber and the severe female staggered away a heavy loser. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime iii. 47 Leave it to me. I will get into his ribs for you. 1951 P. G. Wodehouse Old Reliable xviii. 200 It was..the worst possible moment anyone could have selected to approach him with the idea of getting into his ribs for twenty thousand dollars. 1976 P. Larkin Let. 13 Apr. (1993) 538 Bruce has been in my ribs for a small loan—you too, a little? P5. With reference to biblical use (see sense 3). rib of man n. (also rib of mankind) Obsolete a woman; (also) women collectively, womankind. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] wifeeOE womaneOE womanOE queanOE brideOE viragoc1000 to wifeOE burdc1225 ladyc1225 carlinec1375 stotc1386 marec1387 pigsneyc1390 fellowa1393 piecec1400 femalea1425 goddessa1450 fairc1450 womankindc1450 fellowessa1500 femininea1513 tega1529 sister?1532 minikinc1540 wyec1540 placket1547 pig's eye1553 hen?1555 ware1558 pussy?a1560 jade1560 feme1566 gentlewoman1567 mort1567 pinnacea1568 jug1569 rowen1575 tarleather1575 mumps1576 skirt1578 piga1586 rib?1590 puppy1592 smock1592 maness1594 sloy1596 Madonna1602 moll1604 periwinkle1604 Partlet1607 rib of man1609 womanship?1609 modicum1611 Gypsy1612 petticoata1616 runniona1616 birda1627 lucky1629 she-man1640 her1646 lost rib1647 uptails1671 cow1696 tittup1696 cummer17.. wife1702 she-woman1703 person1704 molly1706 fusby1707 goody1708 riding hood1718 birdie1720 faggot1722 piece of goods1727 woman body1771 she-male1776 biddy1785 bitch1785 covess1789 gin1790 pintail1792 buer1807 femme1814 bibi1816 Judy1819 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 wifie1823 craft1829 shickster?1834 heifer1835 mot1837 tit1837 Sitt1838 strap1842 hay-bag1851 bint1855 popsy1855 tart1864 woman's woman1868 to deliver the goods1870 chapess1871 Dona1874 girl1878 ladykind1878 mivvy1881 dudess1883 dudette1883 dudine1883 tid1888 totty1890 tootsy1895 floozy1899 dame1902 jane1906 Tom1906 frail1908 bit of stuff1909 quim1909 babe1911 broad1914 muff1914 manhole1916 number1919 rossie1922 bit1923 man's woman1928 scupper1935 split1935 rye mort1936 totsy1938 leg1939 skinny1941 Richard1950 potato1957 scow1960 wimmin1975 womyn1975 womxn1991 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. A3v I cannot holde to see a rib of man A moytie of it selfe, commaund the whole. 1613 T. Nashe Christ's Tears over Jerusalem (ed. 2) 149 Woman-head,... being but a ribbe of man, you will think to ouer-rule him you ought to be subiect too. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Changeling (1653) v. sig. I2 That broken rib of mankind. b. lost rib n. womankind, or a woman, esp. regarded as something a man lacks or seeks. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] wifeeOE womaneOE womanOE queanOE brideOE viragoc1000 to wifeOE burdc1225 ladyc1225 carlinec1375 stotc1386 marec1387 pigsneyc1390 fellowa1393 piecec1400 femalea1425 goddessa1450 fairc1450 womankindc1450 fellowessa1500 femininea1513 tega1529 sister?1532 minikinc1540 wyec1540 placket1547 pig's eye1553 hen?1555 ware1558 pussy?a1560 jade1560 feme1566 gentlewoman1567 mort1567 pinnacea1568 jug1569 rowen1575 tarleather1575 mumps1576 skirt1578 piga1586 rib?1590 puppy1592 smock1592 maness1594 sloy1596 Madonna1602 moll1604 periwinkle1604 Partlet1607 rib of man1609 womanship?1609 modicum1611 Gypsy1612 petticoata1616 runniona1616 birda1627 lucky1629 she-man1640 her1646 lost rib1647 uptails1671 cow1696 tittup1696 cummer17.. wife1702 she-woman1703 person1704 molly1706 fusby1707 goody1708 riding hood1718 birdie1720 faggot1722 piece of goods1727 woman body1771 she-male1776 biddy1785 bitch1785 covess1789 gin1790 pintail1792 buer1807 femme1814 bibi1816 Judy1819 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 wifie1823 craft1829 shickster?1834 heifer1835 mot1837 tit1837 Sitt1838 strap1842 hay-bag1851 bint1855 popsy1855 tart1864 woman's woman1868 to deliver the goods1870 chapess1871 Dona1874 girl1878 ladykind1878 mivvy1881 dudess1883 dudette1883 dudine1883 tid1888 totty1890 tootsy1895 floozy1899 dame1902 jane1906 Tom1906 frail1908 bit of stuff1909 quim1909 babe1911 broad1914 muff1914 manhole1916 number1919 rossie1922 bit1923 man's woman1928 scupper1935 split1935 rye mort1936 totsy1938 leg1939 skinny1941 Richard1950 potato1957 scow1960 wimmin1975 womyn1975 womxn1991 1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in Comm. Epist. & Rev. 612 Surely if feasting ever be in season it is at the recovery of the lost rib [i.e. marriage]. 1712 J. Dunton Preaching-weathercock 8 So imperfect and unaccomplish'd is our Virility without the Re-union of our Lost Rib, that substantial and integral Part of ourselves. 1850 Calcutta Rev. 13 453 Many a young man most miraculously found his lost rib, and many a young woman discovered from whose side she had been taken. 1916 J. A. Guthrie Seeing World through Porthole 104 We may fool ourselves into believing that man is the leader..; separate him from that lost rib and observe his rule. 1988 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 13 Mar. Men are always looking for the lost rib so they can feel whole again. P6. rib and panel n. Architecture ribs with panels of brick, stone, wood, etc., between them; (frequently attributive) designating or having a structural system consisting of these. ΚΠ 1842 Ecclesiologist 1 164 Those on the north side are the most perfect remnants of the church, still retaining their vaulting, which is quadripartite rib and panel. 1849 E. Dobson Rudimentary Treat. Masonry & Stonecutting ii. 109 Rib and Pannel vaulting is quite different in its construction. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 214 The rib-and-panel vault is, however, much less costly. 1989 Archit. Hist. 32 7 The likelihood of a rib-and-panel canopy decorating the hall dome is borne out by [etc.]. 2001 D. Langmead Encycl. Archit. & Engin. Feats 99 The use of rib-and-panel vaulting, the pointed arch, and flying buttresses. < as lemmas |
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