10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «SLING ONE'S HOOK»
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Cf. sling (one's) hook. sling 'em out! The c.p. of the RN lowerdeck dhobying firm:
C.20. (Granville) The 'em=dirty clothes. See DCpp. sling (one's) hammock. 'To be
given time to settle down in new surroundings' ('Taffrail', The Sub, 1917); esp.
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Port Out, Starboard Home: The Fascinating Stories We Tell ...
Sling one's hook This idiom is a decidedly informal British one, not much known
in the USA. Most dictionaries record it from the latter part of the nineteenth
century, and note that it could occur also in the form to take one's hook. Both
meant to ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
To dance vigorously: London lower classes' (–1909). i.e. sling it about. sling
one's bunk . To depart: ca 1860–1910. i.e. sling up one's hammock (and go).
sling one's Daniel; sling one's hook . To make off; decamp: Daniel, 1866,
Sessions, Nov.; ...
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A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, ...
Greenwood : In Strange Company. Sling your bunk, go away. Literally " sling up
your hammock." Hence to bunk, to go. To sling one's hook, to begone. I used to
go horse-racing once, At last i made a book. Though lots of men took people's
coin ...
Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, 1897
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Shorter Slang Dictionary
193 sling (one's) hook skiver a shirker, a person who skives. Since around 1915.
See skive, v. skivvy, n. a menial servant, esp. female; a drudge. From around
1905. skivvy, v. to perform menial, boring or heavy household chores. Later 20th
...
Paul Beale, Eric Partridge, Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
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Lexicography: An Introduction
CED4 itself includes some items within entries that are further defined. Under
hook, for example, it defines: by hook or (by) crook; get the hook; hook, line, and
sinker; offthe hook; on the hook; sling one's hook; hook it. These are various
kinds of ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Rea
Thus I (thieves') = to throw away or pass to a confederate ; and 2 (general) to do
easily ; TO sling a pot = to drink; to sling the booze = to stand treat ; to sling a BOB
(a tanner — anything) = to give ; TO sling one's hook (bunk, or daniel) = to ...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1903
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... ...
Thus 1 (thieves') = to throw away or pass to a confederate; and 2 (general) to do
easily ; TO sling a pot = to drink ; to sling the booze = to stand treat ; TO sling a
bob (a tanner — anything) = to give ; TO SLING ONE'S HOOK (BUNK, Or DANiEL
) ...
John Stephen Farmer, Henley, 1903
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
See also hooked adjective, to sling one's hook at sling verb. hooked adjective
Captivated, addicted; usu. followed by on. 1925–. DAILY TELEGRAPH Hundreds
of domestic pets die each year after becoming 'hooked' on slug bait (1970).
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from ...
Thus (1), to throw away or pass to a confederate ; and (2) to do easily ; to eling a
pot, to drink ; to sling the booze, to stand treat; to sling a bob (a tanner — anything
), to give ; to sling one's hook (bunk, or daniel), to decamp ; to eling a daddle, ...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1905
