- skip - Brewer’s

Shot

.

Hand out your shot or Down with your shot—your reckoning or quota, your money. (Saxon, sceat; Dutch, schot.) (See Scot and Lot.)

“As the fund of our pleasure, let us each pay his shot.”


Ben Jonson.

He shot wide of the mark. He was altogether in error. The allusion is to shooting at the mark or bull’s-eye in archery, but will now apply to our modern rifle practice.

 

previous entry · index · next entry

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

previous entry · index · next entry

Shoot the Sun (To)
Shooting-iron (A)
Shooting Stars
Shop
Shop-lifting
Shore (Jane)
Shoreditch
Shorne (Sir John) or Master John Shorne
Short
Short Stature (Noted Men of)
Shot
Shot in the Locker
Shot Window (A)
Shotten Herring
Shoulder
Shovel-board
Show
Shrew-mouse
Shrieking Sisterhood (The)
Shrimp
Shropshire