अंग्रेज़ी किताबें जो «PUT THE NIPS IN» से संबंधित हैं
निम्नलिखित ग्रंथसूची चयनों में
put the nips in का उपयोग पता करें।
put the nips in aसे संबंधित किताबें और अंग्रेज़ी साहित्य में उसके उपयोग का संदर्भ प्रदान करने वाले उनके संक्षिप्त सार।.
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
A sporting c.p., called to or 'said of two boxers in protracted clinch' (L.A., 1976):
since late C.19. See DCpp. put the millefs eye out. See drown the miller. put the
mock or mocker(s) or moz(z) on. See mock on. put the nips in. See nips, 3. put the
...
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Of Pavlova, Poetry and Paradigms: Essays
in Honour of Harry ...
... John Hop 'cop', lugbiter 'cadger', put the nips in 'cadge from', get the strength (
or strong) of 'understand', tinny 'lucky', and wooden 'strike, knock down'. In the 25-
year period ending in 1950 the two dominant groups of antedatings are 'mixed ...
Christine Franzen, Laurie Bauer, 1993
Let's get the damned thing over, put the Nips in their place, save China, and
quickly get back to normal! Meanwhile, he had no need to give Obert directions;
every bachelor officer at Nichols Field knew where the seven houses in the Court
of ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
H. C. BAKER No chance of nippin' the bricky for a smoke—he don't smoke (1978)
. noun 4 to put the nips in (or into) Austral and NZ To cadge (from). 1917–. R.
BEILBY 'I'm putting the bite on you,' Gunner explained gently, 'Putting the nips in,
...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Australian words and their origins
In the phr. to put the nips in (or into) (someone), to cadge (from). (N.Z. 1917
Chrons. N.Z. Exped Force 19 Sept. 63, 1 put the nips in the other night. 1 1919 (
see Nip v.). 19S7W. icT.l. Moore Best Austral. One-Act Plays 398 He came along
to put ...
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USS Pensacola (CA-24): "
the Grey Ghost"
The Army worked with us on the show, and their B-24 bombers pasted the Japs
plenty before we moved in; some P-38s also went in and put the Nips in their
foxholes (the idea was to keep their planes on the ground so they couldn't attack
us).
Ray Snapp, Turner Publishing Company, Eugene Jarman, 1992
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New Zealand Railways Magazine
And you still have most of the skin off your nose, a face like one of those pink
pumpkins which never look quite sober, and lumps on your legs where the
tnosquitos put the nips in; you have returned reluctantly to the roost and January
has ...
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Swords and Crowns and Rings: Text Classics
He thought, 'I'll have to find a homestead and put the nips in for a doss in a
toolshed—anything out of the frost.' In half an hour they had come to a small flat
beside a creek. It was sheltered only by the ashen ghosts of ring-barked trees.
"You always reckon I put the nips in, Mrs. Mac," he said. "Reckon?" she said. "I
know you too damn well. Robbing a poor old woman." He carried her light
suitcase to the hall. As she climbed the short steps to the verandah, colour left her
brown ...
First, it might be suggested that if you've driven up in your still- shiny 1961 model
to put the nips in for a new car, you're the sort of selfish nuisance who deserves
all he gets. I'm not. suggesting it, you understand — but I think that the character ...
