put someone's pipe outとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

put someone's pipe out (三人称単数 現在形 puts someone's pipe out, 現在分詞 putting someone's pipe out, 過去形および過去分詞形 put someone's pipe out)

1. (Britain, slang, archaic) To scupper someone's plans.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrecker (chapter 10)

     “I'll tell you something, too,” retorted the captain, duskily flushing. “I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now.”
     “I can tell you the names of a number of gentlemen you'll never deal with any more, and that's the whole of Longhurst's gang,” said Jim. “I'll put your pipe out in that quarter, my friend. Here, rout out your traps as quick as look at it, and take your vermin along with you. I'll have a captain in, this very night, that's a sailor, and some sailors to work for him.”

参考

• put that in your pipe and smoke it

参照

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary