单词 | take-in |
释义 | take-in, n. (a.) colloq.|ˈteɪkˌɪn| [The verbal phrase take in used as n. or adj.] An act of taking in (take v. 84 o); a cheat, swindle, deception; a thing or person that takes one in, a ‘fraud’.
1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) I. xxi. 105, I find it's as arrant a take-in as ever I met with. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park v, What is this but a take in? 1818Blackw. Mag. II. 398 There are..at least twenty take-ins (as they are called) for one true heiress. 1858Lytton What will he do i. xii, Comedians are such takes in. b. attrib. or adj. That takes in; deceptive.
1819Metropolis III. 119 Tales of a take-in match and a vicious mother-in-law. |

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