英语词组part brass rags with是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

part brass rags with quarrel and break off a friendship with.

☞ This expression is explained in W. P. Drury's short story The Tadpole of an Archangel (1898): 'When [sailors] desire to prove the brotherly love…with which each inspires the other, it is their…custom to keep their brasswork cleaning rags in a joint ragbag. But should relations…become strained between them, the bag owner casts forth upon the deck…his sometime brother's rags; and with the parting of the brassrags hostilities begin'. The phrase originated as late 19th-century nautical slang.

词组	part brass rags with
释义	part brass rags with quarrel and break off a friendship with. ☞ This expression is explained in W. P. Drury's short story The Tadpole of an Archangel (1898): 'When [sailors] desire to prove the brotherly love…with which each inspires the other, it is their…custom to keep their brasswork cleaning rags in a joint ragbag. But should relations…become strained between them, the bag owner casts forth upon the deck…his sometime brother's rags; and with the parting of the brassrags hostilities begin'. The phrase originated as late 19th-century nautical slang.
随便看	make a mountain out of a molehill make a move make a move on make a move on (or put the moves on) make a muck of make a name for yourself make an example of make an exhibition of yourself make an honest woman of make a night of it make a night of it make an issue of make a noise make a nonsense of make a nuisance of yourself make a (or your) pile make a pass at make a pig of yourself make a pig's ear of make a pig's ear of make a pile make a pitch make a play for make a production of make a rod for your own back