subs. (colloquial).—An advance: in salary, price, betting, status, rank, &c. See RAISE.
1837. DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, liii. Eighteen bob a-week, and a RISE if he behaved himself.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, ii. 42. A friend or two in London … gave me a bit of a RISE, so I began as a costermonger.
1864. TENNYSON, Aylmer’s Field.
| And wrinkled benchers often talk’d of him | |
| Approvingly, and prophesied his RISE. |
1893. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, 70, ‘On the Glorious Twelfth.’
| It’s hupset all your ’olidays, Charlie, and as to my chance of a RISE | |
| Wot do you think, old pal! |
Verb. (colloquial).—1. To play into one’s hands; to listen credulously.
1856. WHYTE-MELVILLE, Kate Coventry, xvi. John ROSE freely in a moment … he burst out quite savagely.
2. See RAISE.
TO GET (HAVE or TAKE) A RISE OUT OF ONE, verb. phr. (common).—To mortify; to make ridiculous; to outwit.
1600. W. KEMP, Nine Daies Wonder [ARBER, English Garner, vii. [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, ii. 52. The new substantives are pipe, a RISE (leap); whence comes “GET A RISE OUT OF HIM”].
d. 1859. DE QUINCEY, The Spanish Military Nun. Possibly TAKING A RISE out of his worship the Corregidor.
1901. The Sporting Times, 6 April, 1, 4. But, I don’t care how hard he tries, He out of me can’t TAKE A RISE.
PHRASES.—TO RISE A BARNEY (showmen’s) = to collect a crowd; TO RISE ARSE UPWARDS = ‘A sign of good luck’ (RAY).
