10 АНГЛІЙСЬКА КНИЖКИ ПОВ'ЯЗАНІ ІЗ «KEEP ON A STRING»
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
1810. Bee,' 'Pomes' Marshall, 'You can't kid me . .. they've been having you on a
string.' Ex lead in, or have in or on, a string, to have completely under control. Cf.
string on.—-8. Hence, have (or keep) on a string, 'to keep a person in suspense ...
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, 1984
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
'Pomes' Marshall, 'You can't kid me...they've been having you on a string.' Ex lead
in, or have in or on, a string, to have completely under control. cf. STRING ON. 2.
Hence, have (or keep) on a string, to keep a person in suspense for a long ...
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Heinemann English Dictionary
4 Music a tightly stretched length of catgut or wire which produces a note when
made to vibrate. 5 (strings) Music any instruments having such strings, especially
those of the violin family. stringent Phrases keep on a string to have under one's.
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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
The RSV renders Heb. qasar in Job 41:5 (MT 40:29) "put ... on leash" (AV "bind";
NEB "keep . . . on a string"). The figure is that of little girls playing with a young
sparrow on a string. It illustrates God's total control over Leviathan as opposed to
...
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The Indians of the southeastern United States
An account of time, and other things, they keep on a string or leather thong tied in
knots of several colours. I took particular notice of small wheels serving for this
purpose amongst the Oenocks, because I have heard that the Mexicans use the ...
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Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home
"Well, we'd charge more if we kept the ham in 'em, but we got this one cube we
keep on a string, see ..." and he leaves it to me to fill in the image of Snub
standing over a caldron of bubbling limas, holding a cube of ham on a string like
an ice ...
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Swahili Islamic Poetry. Vol. 1-3. - Leiden: Brill 1971. 8°
9 c. dharura 'distress, plight, necessity, constraint, emergency, need'. d. -tamba '
keep on a string, let wait, postpone, keep at a distance, tarry with'. Y: kunitaya 'to
mention me, talk about me'. 10. Sina siri tena imefunuka hao t'ongelezi wamo ...
'Oh, from one of the little people we keep on a string down here. We can get him
for drugs or for breaking and entering any time we want him, so we let him run
loose, and in return he brings us back a piece of information now and again.
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Positively Fearless: Breaking Free of the Fears that Hold ...
Using simple yet effective techniques developed in modern psychotherapy and self-help programs, the author tackles many different fears.
Much more than the life of a thoroughly decent man, The Last Englishman is a comic and touching anatomy of the best kind of Englishness. ‘Conveying the significance of the author of Carr’s Dictionary of Extraordinary Cricketers to ...
