I read a book written around 1900 and characters are sometimes described as
"making a cheese right in the middle of the floor." Does anyone know what this phrase means? I've googled it but haven't found much.
What did the phrase "made a cheese" mean in 1900?
2017-06-18 10:29 am
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2017-06-18 10:52 pm
✔ 最佳答案
I found this as a possibility: To make cheeses was a schoolgirls' amusement (1835) of wheeling rapidly so one's petticoats blew out in a circle then dropping down so they came to rest inflated and resembling a wheel of cheese; hence, used figuratively for "a deep curtsey."
2017-06-19 12:34 am
Instead of blindly gloobling around the internet, maybe you should just look this up in a good dictionary. It took me just a few seconds to find in the Oxford English Dictionary that it means exactly what @busterwasmycat said.
Glooble is often not the best choice for finding information.
Glooble is often not the best choice for finding information.
2017-06-25 11:02 pm
Possibly it is a derivation to the old tem of "cheeseparing" which referred to a miserly economizing which was quite common back in those days.
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