单词 | buggy ride |
释义 | buggy riden. Originally U.S. A ride in a buggy (in various senses of buggy n.1).Quot. 1848 shows slightly earlier currency of an equivalent verb. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > a ride in a vehicle > ride in a wheeled vehicle > ride in types of horse-drawn vehicle buggy ride1849 straw ride1856 hayride1896 1848 Manch. Times 29 Aug. 8/3 They do nothing but buggy-ride day after day until their capital is exhausted.] 1849 Western Commerc. (Aurora, Indiana) 28 July One of the B'hoys and his G'hal were taking a social buggy ride. 1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 255 The one on the gang plow would have a fine buggy ride. 1881 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Sentinel 8 July Three young men who were hatlessly enjoying a buggy ride about the city. 1979 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 29 Sept. There still remained a desire to gratify an overdue longing to take a $10 buggy ride. 2011 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 18 Sept. 24 We..crossed to Dent Island for a buggy ride around the spectacular 18-hole golf course. Phrases colloquial. thanks for the buggy-ride: used as a genuine or ironic expression of gratitude, ‘thank you very much’, ‘thanks for everything’. Now somewhat rare.Popularized by a song with this title performed by the American singer Fred Waring (1900–84), among others (see quot. 1925). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > gratitude > expressions of thanks [phrase] thank you14.. thank thee1631 thankee1824 thanks for the buggy-ride1927 1925 J. Buffano Thanks for the Buggy Ride (MS, Libr. of Congress) (song lyric) 2 Thanks for the buggy ride, thanks for the buggy ride. I had a wonderful time. No smell of gasoline, just an old fashioned team.] 1927 H. C. Witwer Classics in Slang xvii. 233 The landin' was well-nigh perfect, from an undertaker's viewpoint... I dragged myself out from under the wreck. ‘Thanks for the buggy ride!’ I snarls at him. 1938 N. Marsh Artists in Crime xv. 231 When the spot of trouble comes along it's ‘Thanks for the buggy ride, it was OK while it lasted’. 1968 N.Y. Mag. 23 Sept. 1/2 (advt.) Did you ever tell a date, ‘Thanks for the buggy ride’? 2011 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 10 Dec. 56 Thanks for the buggy ride, Mum, it was brilliant, you ticked all the boxes for being the best Mum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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