| 词汇 | his elevenses are up |
| 词源 | his elevenses are up. Canadians are familiar with this ex- pression, which hails from Newfoundland. It means a person is dying, because in some old people the two muscles in the back of the neck protrude like two bones resembling the nu- meral 11. |
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