suck the mop

English

Verb

suck the mop (third-person singular simple present sucks the mop, present participle sucking the mop, simple past and past participle sucked the mop)

(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.
(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?"

References

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

单词	suck the mop
释义	suck the mop English Verb suck the mop (third-person singular simple present sucks the mop, present participle sucking the mop, simple past and past participle sucked the mop) (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. (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?" References (bus boxed in): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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