10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TURN UP ONE'S TOES»
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Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary
—Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Jack O'Diamonds,” 1926 To become enriched, if only
by replacing one's coins with dollars. turn up one's toes So dry old bo weevil,
turned up his toes an'died Now there ain't nothin' to do, [but] bootleg moonshine
an' ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
tum up crabs , see CRABS, COME OFF. turn up one's toes or one's toes up, see
TOES UP, TURN ONE'S. turn up sweet . As in to turn up a flat sweet, to leave a
PIGEON (4) in good humour after 'plucking' him: c.: from ca 1810. turned *.
Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, 1973
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
But the longer turn up (one's) toes to the daisies had already been used by
Barham, 1842. See daisies. . turn-up, n. A contest, a match, e.g. at boxing or
wrestling: early and mid-C.19. Blackwood's, July 1823, 'Idyl' (Moe). —2. A sudden
...
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Idiomatic Expressions with English Grammar' 99 Ed.
Cruz, Et Al. TURN THE TRICK TURN THE TRICK TURN TO TURN TO
ACCOUNT TURN TO DUST TURN TO GOOD ACCOUNT TURN TOPSY-TURVY
TURN TURTLE TURN UP TURN UP ONE'S NOSE TURN UP ONE'S TOES
TURN UP THE ...
... turn up one's toes; die a violent death &c. (be killed) 361. Adj. dead, lifeless;
deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate†,
inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life &c. v.; dead and
...
(You must try hard to toe the mark in the performance of your duties. ft'.ff"Kl:£Mr to
tread on someone's toes IL TREAD to turn up one's toes (fi) — ft^nf ; R|Pf toffee
someone can't do something for toffee ( P ) 7ftift{£%V (He couUn t play for toffee.
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duell
... the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural
death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's
death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's
toes; ...
John Donne, William Henry Draper, Izaak Walton, 1926
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
... Zehen treten to turn up one's toes Abgang: den Abgang machen ♢ Löffel: den
Löffel weglegen/(sin- ken lassen/wegwerfen/wegschmeißen/abgeben) to have
turned up one's toes Arsch: schon einen kalten Arsch haben to walk with one's
toes ...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
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Glossaries Of Americanisms V
... one's days being numbered; having one foot in the grave; one's hour'
beingcome; being on one's last legs; at the last gasp; lite hanging by a thread;
catch one's death; go ofi the hooks; turn up one's toes; die a violent death, 8w.
Life -ebbs.
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
... make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle;
come to an untimely end ; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket,
hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death &c. (be killed) 361. Adj. dead
...
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
