| 单词 | usual offices |
| 释义 | > as lemmasusual 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. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] gongOE 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. usual office(s) (b) Frequently in usual channels [channel n.1 12a] ; usual office(s): see office n. 7b. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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