shanks' mare

短语

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词形变化

shanks' mares 复数 shanks' mares

别名

shanks's mare shank's mare shanks mare

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One's own feet used for walking.

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    美国 可数 习语 不可数

    A public exhibition of the velocipede [a predecessor of the bicycle] ... will never come into general use in competition with Shank's mare.

    Once they take to Shanks' mare, they are all equal.

    The last thing we'd want to be seen doing...is using shanks mare, even though the day is holding up well.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

shank's mare shank's pony shanks' pony

上位词 1

leg

词源

Believed to be Scottish in origin and derives from shanks' nag (shanks-naig 1774), referring to the use of shank to refer to the part of the human leg between the knee and ankle. One theory cites "shank's mare" derived from a horse-drawn lawn mower, manufactured by Shanks & Company Ltd. (founded 1853) which required that the human operator walk behind the device to guide the horse; however, references to the phrase in Scottish literature pre-date the existence of the Shanks lawn mower.

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