Meaning of cut of one's jib | Babel Free

Definitions

A person's general appearance, manner, or style.

dated, idiomatic

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Examples

“We have only farther to notice Meg's mode of conducting herself towards chance travellers, who, […] stumbled upon her house of entertainment. Her reception of these was as precarious as the hospitality of a savage nation to sailors shipwrecked on their coast. […] [I]f she disliked what the sailor calls the cut of their jibb—or if, above all, they were critical about their accommodations, none so likely as Meg to give them what in her country is called a sloan.”

“About eleven o'clock, the captains who were to be our Minos and our Rhadamanthus, made their appearance, and we all agreed that we did not much like the "cut of their jibs."”

“I axes you, because I see you're a sailor by the cut of your jib.”

“"You'll not know him from any one else," said Mrs Avenel. "Well, that is a good one! Not know an Avenel! We've all the same cut of the jib—have we not, father?"”

“I have seen that girl on the deck, and I like the cut of her jib. I like the way she walks. Her independence suits me.”

“Jack thinks, by the cut of their jibs, they were Frenchmen, one an officer and the other his servant.”

“Mr Bloom watched her as she limped away. Poor girl! That's why she's left on the shelf and the others did a sprint. Thought something was wrong by the cut of her jib. Jilted beauty. A defect is ten times worse in a woman.”

“We were drawn together from the first as young men will be: we liked the cuts of each other's jibs: we were both sailors (and there is only one sea-service in spite of the guns and gold-lace) and then the far distant dim relationship gave us the feeling that many of the barriers, of race and faith and custom, were down from between us.”

“"By the cut of their jibs I shall know them!" That's the way Ham Hamberger summed it up as he looked ahead to his coming battle employment, and speculated upon those with whom he would be called upon to serve—not knowing. And by the cut of their jibs he did know them when the time came, and they him, […]”

“Mr. Burns: Who's that goat-legged fellow? I like the cut of his jib. / Waylon Smithers: Uh, the Prince of Darkness, sir. He's your eleven o'clock.”

“"You don't like me much, do you?" / "Let's just say I don't like the cut of your jib, Mr. Tate."”

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