shank of the evening

Twilight, dusk. This expression uses shank in the sense of “latter part of ” or “end of,” a usage rare except in this phrase. The earliest citation in the OED is from 1828. P. G. Wodehouse used it in Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin (1972), “‘It’s very late.’—‘Shank of the evening.’”

词组	shank of the evening
释义	shank of the evening shank of the evening Twilight, dusk. This expression uses shank in the sense of “latter part of ” or “end of,” a usage rare except in this phrase. The earliest citation in the OED is from 1828. P. G. Wodehouse used it in Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin (1972), “‘It’s very late.’—‘Shank of the evening.’” See also: evening, of, shank The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: and the rest place for everything (and everything in its place), a angry young man safe haven good evening bring (something) with bring with go and eat coke shank it land up in (something) References in periodicals archive At the shank of the evening, he might call it his albatross. Core beliefs as the heart of Catholicism
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