单词 | cauld kale het again |
释义 | > as lemmascauld kale het again b. Scottish. Phrases: cauld kale het again, something stale served up again; e.g. an old sermon doing duty a second time. to give one his kale through the reek, to treat one in some unpleasant fashion, to let one ‘have it’. ΚΠ 1660 in J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. 80 We will take cold kail het again tomorrow. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 12 When my mother and him forgathered, they set till the sodgers, and I think they gae them their kale through the reek! 1823 J. Galt Entail III. xxx. 282 Theirs was a third marriage, a cauld-kail-het-again affair. 1840 C. Brontë Let. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. ix. 214 He would have given the Dissenters their kale through the reek—a Scotch proverb. < as lemmas |
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