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Definition of tally-ho in English: tally-hoexclamation talɪˈhəʊ A huntsman's cry to the hounds on sighting a fox. （猎人发现狐狸督促猎狗去追赶时发出的吆喝声）呔嗬！ Example sentencesExamples - I stood up in my stirrups as tall as I could get and shouted, "Tally ho!" at the top of my lungs.
- Giddyup is gone and tallyho is here… toss the cowboy hat and pull up the jodhpers, western evolves to English equestrian.
- I called "Tally ho" again, and watched with pleasure as Darter came bounding out of the underbrush behind me.
nounPlural tally-hos talɪˈhəʊ 1A cry of ‘tally-ho’ 发出呔嗬的声音 with a final tally-ho, they began wading forward Example sentencesExamples - Fair enough, a lot of the people marching at the weekend do like a bit of the old tally-ho.
- A-hunting we will go no more, chaps… No more tally-ho across the shires then, no more hunting horns skirling across the frosty banks of willows in the winter morning.
- Yes, and I'm off to clean up now, so tally-ho, Englandman.
- If we could offer a tip it would be to never say tally-ho, whatever the provocation.
- Labour backbenchers are confident the last tally-ho will soon echo across Britain's countryside.
2historical A fast horse-drawn coach. 〈史〉跑得很快的马车 Example sentencesExamples - There was always great excitement among the fans just before game time as people arrived by horseback and in tally-hos or fancy carriages to cheer for their favorite team.
- Horses trotted through the dirt streets, pulling buckboards and tally-hos past slower-moving electrified trolley cars.
- In New York City, there was an annual coaching parade during which such rigs as four-in-hands and tally-hos coursed down Fifth Avenue.
- They also took over similar services at all of the mountain hotels, the last, Glacier House in 1915 by which time they had 80 tally-hos, coaches, carriages and wagons and 146 head of driving horses.
- He jumped over the ropes and ran swiftly across the field, leaving Reggie to saunter along at his leisure, bowing to the ladies in the grandstand and on the tally-hos as he passed.
verbtally-hoed, tally-hoes, tally-hoingtalɪˈhəʊ [no object]Utter a cry of ‘tally-ho’. 发出呔嗬的声音 Example sentencesExamples - I wonder how many people have seen that cross as he tally-hoes across the country.
- He was hale and hearty and tally-hoed after the fox for two hours.
- Hunting conventions - tail coats, red waist coats, high leather boots, tally-hoing and horn blowing - is a mite too celebratory for the cruelty that lays ahead.
- The gameplay involves a lot of tally-hoing across the countryside in search of treasure, monsters, and all manner of mayhem.
- Relying on a load of riders tally-hoing randomly across the countryside can't possibly be effective on any realistic scale.
OriginLate 18th century: apparently an alteration of French taïaut, of unknown origin. Rhymesaglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou |