10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STIR ONE'S STUMPS»
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
NED Stumbling-block; Oxford 68-9; Whiting B355. Cf. Tilley B454. 5500 As rotten
as an old Stump 1756 Washington Writings 1.486-7: The French, whose hearts
are false, and rotten as an old Stump. Cf. TW 359(2). 5501 To stir one's Stumps ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
Stir one's stumps Make haste; walk faster He was urged to stir his stumps if he
wished to be in time for the function. Stir one to something or Stir something up
Excite; rouse the eagerness or excitement of The scene he saw before him on the
...
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition, 2004
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Glossaries Of Americanisms V
The thick of the action ; too many cooks; new brooms; too many irons in the fire: to
look sharp; to bear a hand; to lay about one; to have one's hands full; to kick up a
dust; to stir one's stumps; to set or put one's shoulders to the wheel; to tug at ...
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A complete dictionary of synonyms and antonyms or synonyms ...
The thick of the action ; too many cooks; new brooms; too many irons in the fire: to
look sharp; to bear a hand; to lay about one; to have one's hands full; to kick up a
dust; to stir one's stumps; to set or put one's shoulders to the wheel; to a tug at ...
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An English and Welsh Dictionary, Wherein, Not Only the ...
T To stir one's stumps, Ynisymmud yn gynt, chwanegu ei frys. To stir up or
provoke. See under P. To stir up or roue. See to Kaise (in its 6th, 7th, 8th, 11th,
16th, 20th, and «7th Acceptation; to Move (in its 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 1<itli,11th,&
13$ ...
John Walters, Hannah Walters, 1828
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>?=Lft3L stir to stir in fE- JlPA -t^^iPWfflffi (Please add three spoons of milk to the
salads and stir them in. SMWEHlfc^ to stir one's stumps [COfi'Bi I ttiAftfc (If you ...
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A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel ...
Stir one's stumps, [Colloquial.] Hasten, be quick, make the most ofone's time,
notsuffer the grass to grow under one's feet. Stirrer up, Inciter, instigator. Stirring,
a. Active, lively, brisk, smart, industrious, diligent. Stir up, Instigate, excite, STIR .
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete ...
To stir one's stumps, a common phrase, meaning to set about anything
expeditiously. His long practice of the pot has exempt him from being presl a
souldier : hee has quite lost the use of his stump*, how should he then possibly
keepe his ...
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1872
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
To stir one's stumps. To get on faster ; to set upon something expeditiously. This
makes him stlrre his stumps. The Two Lancashire iMvern (1G40). The stumps are
the legs, or wooden legs fastened to stumps of mutilated limbs. For Wltherington
...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
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Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: So Classified and ...
To look sharp ; to bear a hand ; to lay about one ; to have one's hands full ; to kick
up a dust ; to stir one's stumps ; to set or put one's shouldjrs to the wheel ; to tug at
the oar ; to put one's best leg foremost ; to do one's test ; to do all one can ; to ...
