| 单词 |
sub-cheese |
| 释义 |
sub-cheese Mil. slang (orig. Anglo-Indian).|sʌbˈtʃiːz| Also sub-cheeze, -chiz. [ad. Hind. sab all + chiz thing (see cheese n.2).] The lot; everything; all that there is. Also in phr. the whole sub-cheese.
[1864Hotten Slang Dict. 98 The expression cheese may be found in the Gipsy vocabulary, and in the Hindostanee and Persian languages. In the last chiz means a thing. Ibid. 250 Sub, all. Anglo-Indian.] 1874E. Lear Jrnl. 4 May (1953) vii. 132 Then came the long and stumbling descent until the last village, where were all the coolies, and sub-cheese (everything). 1895Kipling Day's Work (1898) 181 She's as clever as a man... Settled the whole subchiz (outfit) in three hours. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 60 Subcheese, the lot. 1962M. Malgonkar Combat of Shadows xxiv. 184 And the cricket pavilion, and the game cottage, the whole subcheeze. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 251 Of course we were lugging our ammo, machine-guns, mortars, and the whole subcheeze with us. |

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