suck the mopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

suck the mop (三人称単数 現在形 sucks the mop, 現在分詞 sucking the mop, 過去形および過去分詞形 sucked the mop)

1. (slang, idiomatic) To be left in a disadvantageous position.
   • 1987, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales (page 426)

     Kathy says Much obliged, but what I don't appreciate about this piece of moral news is the pairing of successful writer with sexy hotshot lit prof, which leaves us pregnant librarians and failed playwrights sucking the mop.

2. (slang, idiomatic, Britain, obsolete) Of a bus: to be deliberately boxed in by another so as to lose the opportunity to pick up passengers.
   • 1867, Banter (issue 1, page 81)

     "Now then, poppy-head:" — this to the conductor of a rival omnibus before us — "how long am I to go on sucking the mop?"

参照

• (bus boxed in): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary