“Box and Cox”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Box and Cox

释义

Box and Cox
The name of a farce written by J. M. Morton (1811–91) in 1847, in which two characters, John Box and James Cox, occupy the same apartment (the one by day and the other by night); hence applied allusively to an arrangement in which two persons take turns in sustaining a part, occupying a position, or the like.
1881Punch 3 Sept. 100/1 This sort of Box and Cox life in a cabin.1927C. E. Raven Creator Spirit iii. 78 Representing mind and body as playing a perpetual game of Box and Cox.1959Spectator 14 Aug. 180/2 The French Community..shares, Box-and-Coxwise, the Luxembourg Palace with the French Senate.

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