cut of one's jib

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌkʌt‿əv wʌnz ˈd͡ʒɪb/    美 /ˌkʌt‿əv wʌnz ˈd͡ʒɪb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person's general appearance, manner, or style. dated,idiomatic
    — We have only farther to notice Meg's mode of conducting herself towards chance travellers, who, […] stumbled upon her house of entertainment. Her reception of these was as precarious as the hospitality of a savage nation to sailors shipwrecked on their coast. […] [I]f she disliked what the sailor calls the cut of their jibb—or if, above all, they were critical about their accommodations, none so likely as Meg to give them what in her country is called a sloan.

词形变化

cut of their jibs plural cuts of their jibs plural

词源

From cut (“a way of shaping or styling”) and jib (“a triangular staysail set forward of the foremast”), originally a nautical expression alluding to the identification of far-off sailing vessels by the shape of their sails. The idiomatic sense may have been influenced by the similarity of a triangular jib sail to a person’s nose.
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