| 单词 |
Mason and Dixon |
| 释义 |
Mason and Dixon U.S.
= Mason's and Dixon's line: see line n.2 17 b. Now usu. Mason-Dixon.
1779in W. B. Reed Life & Corr. J. Reed (1847) II. 134 The Virginia gentlemen offer to divide exactly the 40th degree with us... Perhaps we [of Penna.] would be as well off with Mason and Dixon's line continued. 1834C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing 36 And he tell'd me Georgia would go for me, arter the Gineral, as soon as any north of mason and dickson. 1843Knickerbocker XXII. 185 The writer, who dwelleth near Mason and Dixon, descants upon the awful climate. 1948Downers Grove (Illinois) Reporter 21 Oct. 3/2 Two Dixiecrats, out of their element north of the Mason-Dixon, nevertheless registered their convictions on the States' Rights issue. 1969I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam vii. 155 You're crazy, Limey! You couldn't keep me here for all the girls south of the Mason-Dixon Line. 1975Times 20 Aug. 12/3 The tortured condition of the Jewish middle-class intellectual seems..the dominant subject of novels written north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Also transf.
1948Sat. Even. Post 30 Oct. 124/4 This same little band has long since adopted three war-ruined families in the old country—two in Bizonia, one on the other side of Europe's bitter Mason and Dixon's line. 1970New Yorker 22 July 4/3 Sub-Mason-Dixon dining. |
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