| 单词 | hugger-mugger |
| 例句 | He carried it out hugger-mugger—books, dishes, the downstairs rocker, all in a great mix—and carted it right down the middle of Parker Head. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z For much of the last century most Mayanists believed that at its height—200 to 900 a.d., roughly speaking—the Maya realm was divided into a hugger-mugger of more or less equivalent city-states. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Two with their backs against us are hugger-mugger with a third, like tall prelates. Morandi: Lines of Poetry – review 2013-01-13T00:05:35Z It conveys the hugger-mugger of old and new better than any of the dire pronouncements that keep tumbling out of Mr. Carson’s mouth. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: If You Show Me Your Piero Della Francesca . . . 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z In every way it evokes layers of classicism old and new, in which traditions deriving from ancient Greece and the Baroque are hugger-mugger with 20th-century jazziness and sly vaudeville fun. Dance Review: Wild and Tamed in Wheeldon?s ?Estancia? at City Ballet 2010-05-30T22:21:00Z A ripe era for wartime espionage makes for a hugger-mugger entertainment in Lou Ye’s black-and-white historical drama “Saturday Fiction.” Review: Gong Li brings old-school glamor to convoluted spy tale 'Saturday Fiction' 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Cornwall, a cottage in a dark hollow surrounded by woods in the hugger-mugger days following the birth of my first son, our horizon hidden behind fat dark rain clouds, November, mud, puddles, bitter winds. Books to broaden your horizons, by Hilary Mantel, Simon Schama, Lisa Taddeo and more 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z His smile when he poses with voters is a rictus, he ducks fund-raising calls, and he lacks patience for the backroom hugger-mugger required to pass legislation. Gavin Newsom, the Next Head of the California Resistance 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Which is why in many instances the interests that Pinker dismisses as irrational hugger-mugger, everything from astrology to spiritualism, have tended to strengthen during periods of real scientific ferment. Opinion | The Edges of Reason 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Take, for example, “The Naval Treaty,” about diplomatic hugger-mugger. Did Sherlock Holmes Believe in God? 2014-03-03T14:04:29Z And yet, despite all of this the end result is still an anarchic hugger-mugger of concrete, brick, steel and glass, typified by cul-de-sacs full of double-parked cars, and arterial roads clotted with traffic jams. Staring at the Shard 2013-01-18T18:13:13Z The trouble was his “hugger-mugger” management, as Carlyle expressed it. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z My father's collection, if that serious word may be applied to a hugger-mugger of books, had grown up anyhow and nohow, and in it the most revered stocks had mingled with the most frivolous. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Shy with the gun they might be, and indeed it is no natural weapon of their race; but these operators knew the use of trip and hamstring—the hugger-mugger arts; none better. Where the Pavement Ends Still, everything drifts on to these hugger-mugger large enterprises; Chicago spreads over the world. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Begin in hugger-mugger and you may end in it. The Combined Maze "In hugger-mugger to inter him," Hamlet, IV, v, 84. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar The original and proper sense of hugger-mugger is secretly. Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc He weren't made to finish hugger-mugger in no such hell hole. Where the Pavement Ends Their meetings, conducted in secrecy and in a hugger-mugger atmosphere, are held about every six months at various places throughout the world. The Invisible Government And there he lived with them, in much "hugger-mugger," merely taking his humble midday meal in nomadic fashion, on his own account. Life of Charles Dickens As the match burned low in my fingers I looked around hastily for a candle, scanning the dresser, the mantel-shelf, the hugger-mugger of linen, crockery, wall-ornaments, lying in a trail along the floor. Poison Island So much of the Gauntlet's hugger-mugger I managed to discern before Captain Pomery left the helm and hurried forward to give us welcome on board. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 She could not conceal her interest in what Rotha had said, and throwing aside her languor, she asked, in anything but a melancholy tone, "So he's left all hugger-mugger, has he?" The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Its ordinary hugger-mugger had been cleared away—pushed back into corners and out of sight. The Mating of Lydia Mr. J. knows it not, and no single member of the imbecile, anserous, asinine, cow-hocked, spavin-brained, venomous, hugger-mugger purveyors of puddling balderdash who follow him has the least conception of my glorious system. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 Such a hell of a hugger-mugger you never saw! The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea In "The Merry Devil of Edmonton" also is the following line— "But you will to this gear in hugger-mugger." A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 Into your Soul may truculent Daemons pass All hugger-mugger in that dun Morass, But while the Rouge is mantling to your Cheek, Nothing will chide you in your Looking-Glass. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. And the more hugger-mugger they were, the less he should be pestered to let people in to see them. The Mating of Lydia Well, I thought it would be all of a hugger-mugger. Love Eternal The various departments are said to be in a state of "hugger-mugger." The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Muddle flies before it, and hugger-mugger becomes a thing unknown. Character Let alone his meals being all hugger-mugger and comfortless. Mary Barton Nor is the New Yorker a hugger-mugger with his money. North America — Volume 1 |
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