shanks' nag

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Transportation by foot. To "take a shanks' nag" means using one's own legs to walk. Scotland,archaic,idiomatic
    — He took shanks-naig, but fient may care.

词形变化

shanks' nags plural

词源

Traced back to shanks-nag, 1758; The expression -- believed to be Scottish in origin (i.e. shanks-naig 1774), refers to the use of shank to refer to the part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
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