10 LIBROS DEL INGLÉS RELACIONADOS CON «HOLUS-BOLUS»
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The English dialect dictionary
ch. lt wad cost my web 0' wincey Holus-bolus, warp an' waft, GRANT Lays (1884
3'). Ayr. \\'e wad leave it 'hollos-bollos' had we clacs to rin away, AnkEN Lays Ll'nz
(1883) 40. Lnk. A Sort 0' twa-huuder-year-auld shepherd's hut . . . tooken ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
A hold, a grip: low coll: from ca 1880, ex U.S. (1825), ex Eng. dial. of C.14–20.
holus-bolus . The head; occ. the neck: nautical: ca 1870–1905. holus-bolus , adv.
All together: completely; at a gulp; in confusion; helter skelter: orig. (–1847), dial.
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
in Tom Brown's Schooldays; Wilkie Collins, in The Moonstone, 'He put [the silver]
back, holus-bolus, in her pocket.' The OED suggests by facetious latinisation of (
the) whole bolus or as through Gr. 6A0; Bo'Mos. holy. See more holy than ...
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Curious English Words and Phrases: The Truth Behind the ...
... an original Greek phrase holos bolos, which means all at once, the entire lump.
English people gradually rounded that Greek phrase into holus-bolus, which has
a slightly jocular air to it. Home and hosed It means secure, certain to succeed, ...
The suggestion of it needs expunging in the motto 'To be is to be the value of a
variable', but appears unmistakably in what can be described as a kind of Holus
Bolus view1 that suggests that it is the object simpliciter holus bolus that makes ...
D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin, U.T. Place, 2002
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Einstein's Genie: Spacetime out of the Bottle
Reflection yields symmetries only if the space has them. Consider, now,
something rather different: a Holus Bolus shift. When you double the size of
things, double the space as well. That's always a symmetry. Actually it need not
be2, but the ...
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
Holus bolus 1853 "Here is a room that fetched down holus bolus as it stood." (p.
222) Haliburton, Thomas C. Sam Slick, ed. Ray P. Baker. Toronto: McClelland
and Stewart, 1923. 1857 having resolved to "sar' it out," as we say in the Vale, ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish ...
Eng. argy-bargy 'arguing,' hell's bells, silly billy; Canadian/S.African Eng. holus-
bolus 'all at once,' eeny-meeny(-miney-moe), pell-mell, prissy missy, toil and moil,
hugger-muggerlhug(gry)-mug(gry) (§ 10.2.2.2); Spanish tio mio! 'goodness !
Mark R. V. Southern, 2005
Dinner had been held up for me, and when I came out of my bath it was ready.
Mama and I settled down at the table and I had time to look her over. She looked
bleached. “You look pale, Mama; you all right?” “Oh, a little 407 Holus Bolus.
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Gluttony: A Dictionary for the Indulgent
... (hawg) VERB: To act in a greedy or selfish manner. holus-bolus (HOH-lus BOH
-lus) ADVERB: All at once; altogether. —MENANDER hunger (HUHNG-ger)
NOUN: A need or want for something, hedonist hefty high living hog holus-bolus.
10 NOTICIAS EN LAS QUE SE INCLUYE EL TÉRMINO «HOLUS-BOLUS»
Conoce de qué se habla en los medios de comunicación nacionales e internacionales y cómo se emplea el término
holus-bolus en el contexto de las siguientes noticias.
#RainbowsForever
Today's word comes courtesy of one-man-band, Holus-Bolus, which means (I looked it up) "all at once" or "everything." The honorific suits the ... «The Journal, Jul 15»
John Ivison: Tory fumbling of Victims of Communism memorial …
... ethnic outreach strategy is deemed such a roaring success, the British Conservatives have been unabashed about swallowing it holus-bolus. «National Post, Jun 15»
In aboriginal affairs, negotiation is a two-way street
Then, he announced an offer to recognize aboriginal title to land, holus-bolus, something no other premier ever contemplated. Frustrated by the ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
Business bites: HSBC squall … Menulog stalls … Walmart fall …
... and another 25,000 from its technology areas, which will be moved to the Cloud and to India holus-bolus, judging by last night's commentary ... «Crikey, Jun 15»
Fed's shipbuilding program headed for trouble
But the EGD is routinely used by commercial shippers, meaning it cannot be simply given over holus-bolus to naval construction. All of which ... «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, May 15»
double-dipping isn't fair dinkum
Another point to note is that the government never accepted the PC recommendations holus-bolus. In fact, the PC recommended all sorts of ... «The Australian, May 15»
Christie Blatchford: Duffy lawyer makes case for having Senate …
Bayne repeatedly said of the committee report, “This is not the Ernst & Young report” (though huge swaths of it appear to be lifted holus-bolus ... «National Post, May 15»
Mercedes-Benz GLC spied almost camouflage free
... GLC's interior, but earlier spy photos showed that the new crossover will feature an interior lifted almost entirely holus-bolus from the C-Class. «CarAdvice, Abr 15»
MALETTE: Happy is as happy does
... attention as otherwise hard-boiled, top-flight executives bought in holus-bolus to the notion of helping create happy employees and increase ... «Belleville Intelligencer, Abr 15»
Canada has five options on assisted suicide: Goar
Ottawa could adopt another jurisdiction's assisted suicide law holus-bolus. Quebec's would be the obvious choice. But there are other models. «Toronto Star, Abr 15»
