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单词 usual offices
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usual offices
b. In singular or plural. A privy, a lavatory. In later use frequently as usual offices. Cf. ease n. 9b. Now somewhat archaic or euphemistic.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun]
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privy?c1225
room-housec1275
chamber foreignc1300
wardrobea1325
privy chamberc1325
foreignc1390
siegec1400
stool1410
jakes1432
house of easementa1438
kocayc1440
siege-hole1440
siege-house1440
privy house1463
withdraught1493
draught1530
shield1535
bench-hole1542
common house1542
stool1542
jakes house1547
boggard1552
house of office?1560
purging place1577
little house1579
issue1588
Ajax1596
draught-house1597
private1600
necessary house1612
vault1617
longhouse1622
latrine1623
necessary1633
commonsa1641
gingerbread officea1643
boghouse1644
cloaca1645
passage-house1646
retreat1653
shithouse1659
closet of ease1662
garderobe1680
backside1704
office1727
bog?1731
house of ease1734
cuz-john1735
easing-chair1771
backhouse1800
outhouse1819
netty1825
petty1848
seat of ease1850
closet1869
bathroom1883
crapper1927
lat1927
shouse1941
biffy1942
shitholec1947
toot1965
shitter1967
woodshed1974
1727 (title) The Grand Mystery..proposals for erecting 500 Publick Offices of Ease in London and Westminster.
1871 E. Jenkins Ginx's Baby (1879) i. 9 The forty-five big and little lodgers in the house were provided with a single office in the corner of the yard.
1890 in P. Horn Village Educ. in 19th Cent. Oxfordshire (1979) 153 The boys' offices should be provided with doors.
1909 Daily Graphic 26 July 16/1 (advt.) Three reception, four bedrooms, kitchen, and usual offices.
1948 J. Cannan Little I Understood ix. 124 Mildred had been too shy when Adam, indicating a door, had said, ‘“The usual offices”..,’ to open the door and look in.
1951 N. Marsh Opening Night ix. 220 I went to the usual office at the end of the passage.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top i. 13 The bathroom's to the right and the usual offices next to it.
1980 W. Golding Rites of Passage i. 6 Aft of the lobby..is the dining saloon for the passengers with the offices of necessity on either side of it.
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usual office(s)
(b) Frequently in usual channels [channel n.1 12a] ; usual office(s): see office n. 7b.
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1905 Hansard Commons 16 May 500 In reply to the Question of the hon. Member for Waterford, I have to ask him to communicate with my right hon. friend near me through the usual channels.
1946 Erskine May's Law of Parl. (ed. 14) xii. 245 The Government Chief Whip..together with the Chief Whips of the other parties, constitutes what is known as the ‘usual channels’, through which communications pass as to business arrangements and other matters which concern the convenience of Members as a whole.
1975 J. P. Morgan House of Lords & Labour Govt. viii. 213 The usual channels had collapsed and, in the absence of the customary arrangements, the Government could only hope that they might limit discussion by imposing a guillotine.
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