| 单词 | up the pole |
| 释义 | > as lemmasup the (also a) pole Phrasescolloquial. P1. up the (also a) pole. ΚΠ 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 137/2 Pole, up the (military), thought well of by your superiors. Also applied to strict, strait-laced people, who are or like to be considered ‘goody-goody’. b. In confusion or error. ΚΠ 1896 Daily News 1 Apr. 7/6 She remonstrated with the latter, and told him he was ‘up a pole’—i.e. in the wrong. 1965 W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags vi. 92 Curly..generally thought Ronnie was all up the pole when giving advice to someone. 1974 G. Moffat Corpse Road x. 142 ‘Do you really suspect that Pilgrim—Pilgrim!—killed the girl?..’ ‘You're up the pole,’ Mrs Kent said to Page. c. In trouble or difficulty. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > in adversity [phrase] on the gridiron1590 under a cloudc1605 down the weather1611 up the (also a) pole1897 on the mat1917 1897 A. R. Marshall ‘Pomes’ from Pink 'Un 73 He heard himself alluded to as being ‘up the pole’. 1899 Daily Mail 29 Mar. 5/1 When there are nineteen Frenchmen to four Englishmen they were slightly up the pole. 1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xxii. 295 I think we may take it for granted that our friend Weldon is a bit up the pole financially. 1970 R. Beilby No Medals for Aphrodite vi. 244 We'd 'a' been up the pole without him, that's why we didn't send him on his way. d. Drunk. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk fordrunkenc897 drunkena1050 cup-shottenc1330 drunka1400 inebriate1497 overseenc1500 liquor1509 fou1535 nase?1536 full1554 intoxicate1554 tippled1564 intoxicated1576 pepst1577 overflown1579 whip-cat1582 pottical1586 cup-shota1593 fox-drunk1592 lion-drunk1592 nappy1592 sack-sopped1593 in drink1598 disguiseda1600 drink-drowned1600 daggeda1605 pot-shotten1604 tap-shackled1604 high1607 bumpsy1611 foxed1611 in one's cups1611 liquored1611 love-pot1611 pot-sick1611 whift1611 owl-eyed1613 fapa1616 hota1616 inebriated1615 reeling ripea1616 in one's (or the) pots1618 scratched1622 high-flown?1624 pot-shot1627 temulentive1628 ebrious1629 temulent1629 jug-bitten1630 pot-shaken1630 toxed1635 bene-bowsiea1637 swilled1637 paid1638 soaken1651 temulentious1652 flagonal1653 fuddled1656 cut1673 nazzy1673 concerned1678 whittled1694 suckey1699 well-oiled1701 tippeda1708 tow-row1709 wet1709 swash1711 strut1718 cocked1737 cockeyed1737 jagged1737 moon-eyed1737 rocky1737 soaked1737 soft1737 stewed1737 stiff1737 muckibus1756 groggy1770 muzzeda1788 muzzya1795 slewed1801 lumpy1810 lushy1811 pissed1812 blue1813 lush1819 malty1819 sprung1821 three sheets in the wind1821 obfuscated1822 moppy1823 ripe1823 mixed1825 queer1826 rosined1828 shot in the neck1830 tight1830 rummy1834 inebrious1837 mizzled1840 obflisticated1840 grogged1842 pickled1842 swizzled1843 hit under the wing1844 obfusticatedc1844 ebriate1847 pixilated1848 boozed1850 ploughed1853 squiffy?1855 buffy1858 elephant trunk1859 scammered1859 gassed1863 fly-blown1864 rotten1864 shot1864 ebriose1871 shicker1872 parlatic1877 miraculous1879 under the influence1879 ginned1881 shickered1883 boiled1886 mosy1887 to be loaded for bear(s)1888 squiffeda1890 loaded1890 oversparred1890 sozzled1892 tanked1893 orey-eyed1895 up the (also a) pole1897 woozy1897 toxic1899 polluted1900 lit-up1902 on (also upon) one's ear1903 pie-eyed1903 pifflicated1905 piped1906 spiflicated1906 jingled1908 skimished1908 tin hat1909 canned1910 pipped1911 lit1912 peloothered1914 molo1916 shick1916 zigzag1916 blotto1917 oiled-up1918 stung1919 stunned1919 bottled1922 potted1922 rotto1922 puggled1923 puggle1925 fried1926 crocked1927 fluthered1927 lubricated1927 whiffled1927 liquefied1928 steamed1929 mirackc1930 overshot1931 swacked1932 looped1934 stocious1937 whistled1938 sauced1939 mashed1942 plonked1943 stone1945 juiced1946 buzzed1952 jazzed1955 schnockered1955 honkers1957 skunked1958 bombed1959 zonked1959 bevvied1960 mokus1960 snockered1961 plotzed1962 over the limit1966 the worse for wear1966 wasted1968 wired1970 zoned1971 blasted1972 Brahms and Liszt?1972 funked up1976 trousered1977 motherless1980 tired and emotional1981 ratted1982 rat-arsed1984 wazzed1990 mullered1993 twatted1993 bollocksed1994 lashed1996 1897 Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 10/4 Plaintiff:..but your little girl was frequently saying that you were ‘up the poll [sic]’... The Judge: Up the what?.. The High Bailiff explained that the term was a slang one for being intoxicated. 1917 W. Muir Observ. Orderly xiv. 230 The words for drunkenness are innumerable—‘jingled’, ‘oiled’, ‘tanked to the wide’, ‘well sprung’, ‘up the pole’, ‘blotto’, etc. e. Crazy; at one's wits' end. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1904 Westm. Gaz. 19 Mar. 7/2 Plaintiff's definition of the phrase ‘up the pole’ differed from that of her cousin..who said it meant being drunk. Mrs. Frasier said that it..meant being crazy. 1916 E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box 165 It must require an awful lot of pluck... Either pluck or so much panic that one was practically up the pole with it. 1992 I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 20 It's driving me up the pole. f. Irish English. Pregnant. Frequently in to put (also stick) up the pole. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective] greatc1175 with childc1175 with childc1300 baggeda1400 bounda1400 pregnant?a1425 quicka1450 greaterc1480 heavyc1480 teeming1530 great-bellied1533 big1535 boundenc1540 impregnate1540 great-wombeda1550 young with child1566 gravid1598 pregnate1598 pagled1599 enceinte1602 child-great1605 conceived1637 big-bellieda1646 brooding1667 in the (also a) family way1688 in the (also that) way1741 undelivered1799 ensient1818 enwombeda1822 in a delicate condition1827 gestant1851 in pod1890 up the (also a) pole1918 in a particular condition1922 preg?1927 in the spud line1937 up the spout1937 preggy1938 up the stick1941 preggers1942 in pig1945 primigravid1949 preggo1951 in a certain condition1958 gestating1961 up the creek1961 in the (pudding) cluba1966 gravidated- 1918 J. Joyce Ulysses i. [Telemachus] in Little Rev. Mar. 21 That red Carlisle girl? Lily... Is she up the pole?—Better ask Seymour that. 1961 ‘F. O'Brien’ Hard Life v. 37 A lot of crooked Popes..putting duchesses and nuns up the pole, and having all Italy littered with their bastards. 1995 J. Murphy Brothers of Brush ii. 59 The only reason he gave you a job was because you stuck his sister up the pole! 2001 J. Murphy Kings of Kilburn High Road ii, in Two Plays 58 Seventeen's all she is, seventeen and she's up the pole. P2. Originally U.S. I wouldn't touch it (also him, her, etc.) with a ten-foot (also forty-foot) pole: I refuse to have anything to do with (a person or thing). Cf. I wouldn't touch him (or it) with (the end of) a bargepole at bargepole n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > have nothing to do with to avoid (also shun, etc.) like the plague1699 to steer clear of1723 I wouldn't touch it (also him, her, etc.) with a ten-foot (also forty-foot) pole1838 to have no truck with1866 to leave or let severely alone1880 I wouldn't touch him (or it) with (the end of) a bargepole1890 ice1932 1838 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 19 June She was jest as good as mine, till you com a goin arter her, and now I can't touch her with a forty foot pole. 1843 Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) 5 Oct. Senator Lahm, and Representatives Kilgore and Martin,..would not touch it [sc. a piece of legislation] with a ten foot pole. They knew it would not work. 1864 R. Morris Banks of New York 31 Wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Bad line. 1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life 22 The young feller he used to come sometimes an' just shake hands with her, but otherways he wouldn't touch her with a forty-foot pole. 1958 E. O. Schlunke Village Hampden 26 Attracting a lot of business of the more or less shady sort that our reputable men wouldn't touch with a forty-foot pole. 1991 ‘W. Trevor’ My House in Umbria in Two Lives (1992) x. 337 It was then that Mrs Chubbs conveniently turned up her toes, and after that the other lady wouldn't touch him with a pole. < as lemmas |
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