in the straw

Language: en

Meaning: (slang,idiomatic,archaic)Confined to bed because ofpregnancy.1789,Charles Cotesworth Pinckneyto James Madison, 28 March, inThe Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 1, ed. Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker, University of Wisconsin Press, 1976, page 218:Excuse the blots and scrawl of this letter. I am writing in an astonishing hurry and my secretary is so much engaged in copying public, that he has no time to devote to private letters—and my female secretary is at presentin the strawwith a young gentleman who sends his compliments to you.

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