shanks' pony

短语

[网络] 小腿的小马

别名

shanks's pony Shanks's pony shank's pony shanks pony

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One's feet or legs, regarded as a means of transport.

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    习语 不可数

    1989, Charles Hyatt, When Me Was a Boy, Institute of Jamaica Publications, page 43, After all, mos′ everybody had to walk because yuh doan only get to meet people but ‘shanks pony’ was the cheapes′ form of transportation.

    1999, Richard Thompson, Walking the Long Miles Home, (Mock Tudor), And the rhythm in my shoes keeps the blues all away / When you ride Shanks's Pony you don′t have to pay

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

shank's mare shanks' mare shank's pony

上位词 1

leg

词源

Believed to be of Scottish origin, from shanks' nag (shanks-naig, attested 1774).

来源：wiktionary