- have a butcher's
- ► have (or take) a butcher's Brit. informal have a look. [ORIGIN: butcher's from butcher's hook, rhyming slang for a «look».]Main Entry: ↑butcher
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have a butcher's — have/take/a butcher’s british informal phrase to have a look at something Thesaurus: general words meaning to look or not looksynonym to look at someone in a particular wayhyponym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
have/take a butcher's — Brit informal : to look at something This may be what we need. Have a butcher s. • • • Main Entry: ↑butcher … Useful english dictionary
butcher's — n British a look. Nearly always in the phrases have a butcher s or take a butcher s (at this) . From the rhyming slang expression butcher s hook , which is at least eighty years old and is still heard in the unabbreviated form … Contemporary slang
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have (or take) a butcher's Brit. — have (or take) a butcher s Brit. informal have a look. [butcher s from butcher s hook, rhyming sl. for a look .] → butcher … English new terms dictionary
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butcher — ► NOUN 1) a person who cuts up and sells meat as a trade. 2) a person who slaughters animals for food. 3) a person who kills brutally or indiscriminately. ► VERB 1) slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food. 2) kill (someone) brutally. 3) … English terms dictionary
Butcher group — In mathematics, the Butcher group, named after the New Zealand mathematician John C. Butcher by Hairer Wanner (1974), is an infinite dimensional group first introduced in numerical analysis to study solutions of non linear ordinary differential… … Wikipedia
