testy

中古英語 testif (“任性的”)，源自古法語 testu，源自teste (“头”) + -u。对比现代法語 tête (“头”)、têtu (“固执的”)。

testier (comparative)
testiest (superlative)

He made testy remarks.

Otherwise, we could end up with a repeat of what happened with social media companies after the 2016 election — a collision of Silicon Valley power and Washington ignorance, which resulted in nothing but gridlock and testy hearings.

2022年August24日，Kevin Roose，“We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


go downtown

goes downtown (third-person singular present)
going downtown (present participle)
went downtown (past)
gone downtown (past participle)

Rappin about going downtown on the kitty Let me do you and I won't cum too soon.

Go downtown on her for an oral dessert.

2016，David James，Love and Sex at the Post Office:

You see my mistress needs new sexy lingerie and a VACATION TO A REMOTE ISLAND FAR FROM THE CITY where my wife resides. I must provide this for her, because, she goes downtown on me.

2017，Melisa Karpinske，Twelve Rounds With Cancer & Life，頁 54:

Are these normal reactions to your still-hot looking ex? I suppose so. I mean, it was merely a month ago since that mouth went downtown on my body.


regift

regifts (third-person singular present)
regifting (present participle)
regifted (past participle)

Be upfront when giving the re-gifted item.

2007，Sue Fox，Etiquette for Dummies，頁 252:

Don't tell the person who is receiving the gift that he/she is being regifted.

2008，Jeanne Bice，The Ultimate Christmas: The Best Experts' Advice for a Memorable Season with Stories and Photos of Holiday Magic，頁 231:

It's not usually acceptable to regift an item that's used rather than new. On the other hand, regifting something that's important to you and thus sharing its value with the recipient is actually quite generous and thoughtful.

2008，Yvonne Jeffery，Liz Barclay，Michael Grosvenor，Green Living For Dummies，頁 125:

But before you do any real regifting, you need to learn the rules.

2009，Delilah Scott，Emma Troy，The Upside-Down Christmas Tree: And Other Bizarre Yuletide Tales，頁 112:


regift

Fortunately, I'd brought a selection of consolation prizes, Christmas regifts all, and so Ritchie the stranded F-250 driver became the recipient of a very nice scented candle.

Some regifts, particularly distinctive ones, may make the rounds (see “How to Repurpose a Fruitcake,” facing page) and end up being regifted to the original giver, a situation you may find hard to explain.

2007，Joshua Piven，David Borgenicht，The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook，頁 374:

Food and drink are the most likely type of unwanted items to be passed along, accounting for 35 percent of all regifts, versus 23 percent for beauty and bath products and 18 percent for trinkets and collectibles.

2008，Jeanne Bice，The Ultimate Christmas: The Best Experts' Advice for a Memorable Season with Stories and Photos of Holiday Magic，頁 233:


judgement day

If God's a-coming, he ought to make it by then / Maybe he'll look around himself and say / “Guess it's time for the judgement day!”

1968，Zager and Evans （作曲作詞）, “In the Year 2525”:

But when I woke up this morning / I could have sworn it was judgement day

1982，Prince （作曲作詞）, “1999 [title]”, in 1999:


scrounge

1915年，方言词scrunge (“偷偷找，翻找”，1909年)的变换形式，其词源不详。可能源自方言词scringe (“打探，刺探”)，或可能与scrouge、scrooge (“推搡，推挤”，同时在伦敦方言中指“人群”)有关，可能引人联想到screw、squeeze。在第一次世界大战时在军队的影响下普及开来。

scrounges (third-person singular present)
scrounging (present participle)
scrounged (past participle)

四处找，寻觅 （尤指一般价值的事物）

Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.

1965，Bob Dylan （作曲作詞）, “Like a Rolling Stone”:

scrounge for food


high-maintenance

根据Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang，比喻义经由1989年恋爱喜剧《当哈利碰上莎莉》（When Harry Met Sally...）普及开来。

more high-maintenance (comparative)
most high-maintenance (superlative)

让人操心的，让人放不下心的，让人费心的

There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.

1989，Nora Ephron，When Harry Met Sally... (motion picture), spoken by Harry Burns (Billy Crystal):

He has this incredibly high-maintenance girlfriend; if he doesn't tell her that he loves her every five minutes, she tends to break down into hysterical depressive weepy fits.

他的女朋友很麻烦，如果他没有每五分钟告诉她他爱她，她就会歇斯底里痛不欲生地哭起来。


go potty

goes potty (third-person singular present)
going potty (present participle)
went potty (past)
gone potty (past participle)

I simply came outside to go potty, and found myself abandoned, having to rely totally on my primal urges! ... Like the sudden urge to go potty again.

I have to go potty!


humongous

more humongous (comparative)
most humongous (superlative)

/ˌhjuːˈmʌŋɡəs/

/ˌhjuːˈmɒŋɡəs/

[çu̟ːˈmʊŋɡəs]

[ˌçu̟ːˈmɐŋɡəs]

Solomon had pulled this humongous fish that was bigger than anything weʼd ever seen.

2015，Chigozie Obioma，The Fishermen，ONE，頁 19:


damsel in distress

仿譯自法語 demoiselle en détresse，源自大量戏剧表现形式中的经典主题。

需要帮助的少女，在困境中的少女

I am not a pretty girl / That is not what I do / I ain't no damsel in distress / And I don't need to be rescued

1995，Ani DiFranco （作曲作詞）, “Not a Pretty Girl”, in Not a Pretty Girl:

The damsel-in-distress archetype probably conjures up images of delicate maidens and chivalrous gentlemen. That is precisely what it is designed to do — for white people.

2020年May27日，Ruby Hamad，“A White Damsel Leveraged Racial Power and Failed”, in New York Times:


splurge

splurges (third-person singular present)
splurging (present participle)
splurged (past participle)

（使...）涌出，（使...）喷出

The tomato sauce was splurged all over the chips.

But the steamboats come in their time ; and I am sure that I address a large crowd of sympathizing auditors, now that I come to speak of the magnificent old "Fanny," spluttering and paddling, and splurging up to the little wharf under the lea of Peppers Hill, where the pine wood lay piled in fabulous quantities.

1884，Donald Grant Mitchell，Bound Together, A Sheaf of Papers/Norwich, 1659-1859，Norwich:

She waited a moment, quivering with the expectation of her husband's answer; then, as none came except the silent darkening of his face, she walked to the door and turned round to fling back: "Of course you can do what you like with your own house, and make any arrangements that suit your family, without consulting me; but you needn't think I'm ever going back to live in that stuffy little hole, with Hubert and his wife splurging round on top of our heads!"

1913，Edith Wharton，“Chapter XXXVIII”, in The Custom of the Country:

"And boy," he splurged, "we are filming a peach, a pip and a wow! Is it a knockout? Oh, baby! A prize-fight picture entitled 'The Honor of the Champion,' starring Reginald Van Veer, with Honey Precious for the herowine. Boy, will it pack the theayters!"

挥霍，大方地花 （自1911年）

They decided to splurge on the biggest banana split for dessert.

I could see Schultz think, and revive, and splurge with his bets again.


odd fish

We are constantly told how normal and honorable Thoreau was, yet it seems that we would get much further in understanding him if we began, by conceding that he was an odd fish, full of peculiar conceits.

2001, Paul Theroux, Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings (page 355)

The second work is more promising, but something of an odd fish: the anonymous German treatise Schwester Katrei.

2010，Stephen Mossman，Marquard von Lindau and the Challenges of Religious Life:


strange bird

怪人 （性格乖僻或行为怪异的人）

Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game.

1987, Karen Stabiner, "Putting her Heart through the Hoop," New York Times, 14 June (retrieved 29 July 2010):

I never saw him, but Jackie Langley told me Kerouac was a strange bird, stayed drunk, talked crazy, brooded.

1992, Kaye Gibbons, "My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves," in Janet Sternburg (ed.), The Writer on Her Work, vol. 2, ISBN 9780393308679, p. 56:

"You're a strange bird, Meehan," Leroy told him. "When you find out whose house you're in, call me back."

2003，Donald E. Westlake，Put a Lid on It, →ISBN，頁 57:

In this land, too, there dwelled a young man who was a fowler, but a bit of a strange bird he was, for he only captured his birds, preferring not to slaughter them.

2004，Tony K. Stewart，Fabulous Females and Peerless Pīrs: Tales of mad adventure in old Bengal，Oxford, →ISBN，頁 67:


saving grace

For all his treachery and deception, he had one saving grace: good manners.

With Gambier Bay and Hoel sinking and Roberts not much longer for this world, the Johnston is now set upon by four cruisers and a number of destroyers. The ship's crew patch holes as fast as they can, but the ship is literally gradually being taken apart by repeated salvos. The fact that this particular set of Japanese ships is STILL using armor-piercing instead of high explosive is the only saving grace.

2019年February27日，Drachinifel，片头起31:46, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?，存檔自the original on 2022-11-03:


doe-eyed

more doe-eyed (comparative)
most doe-eyed (superlative)

眼神无辜的，眼神温柔的，眼神澄澈的，眼神迷离的

The graphic energy of their martial arts combat was toned down, their slit-eyed ethnic specificity was made into doe-eyed racial ambiguity and their cynical sneers softened into eager grins.

2000, Dudley Jones, Tony Watkins, A necessary fantasy?: the heroic figure in children's popular culture (page 273)

[H]owever hard she pushed the tough-talkin' shtick, she remained doe-eyed, glowing and somehow unassailably demure.

2014年January21日，Hermione Hoby，“Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):


washed up

more washed up (comparative)
most washed up (superlative)

完蛋的，失败的，到头了的，没有前途的

Pavarotti's washed up as a singer, in my view.

我觉得Pavarotti的歌手生涯已经完蛋了。

It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.

2012年June3日，Nathan Rabin，“TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (請指定書籍名或刊物名):

Reize: 'WOAH! ARE YOU FOR REAL, MISTER? [...] AND YOU EVEN GOT A BELT WITH YOUR NAME ON IT?! THE BAZ... I KNEW IT! YOU MUST BE A NOBLE WARRIOR!' / Baz: 'PSHHH. SCRAM, KID. I'M JUST A NOBODY. I'M ALL WASHED UP. IT JUST AIN'T MY DAY.'
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Reize), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch:


sassy

saucy的变换形式，原用在美式英语。

sassier (comparative)
sassiest (superlative)

不要脸的，粗鲁的，无礼的 （自1833年）

Yes, gemmen, we mus stan on our zarve rights. Wat! shall de sassy wite man Nullifly the Guberment? and shall not we, de color men, Nullifly de wite one?

1833，Elnathan Elmwood [pseudonym; Asa Greene]，“A Meeting of Black Politicians—Cæsar Johnson’s Speech on Nullification”, in A Yankee among the Nullifiers: An Auto-biography，第2nd版, New York, N.Y.: Printed and published by William Pearson; Cortlandt-Street, →OCLC，頁 111:

When the red skins seed that the British and Americans war going to clapper clawing, they thought it war time for them to raze up thar brissls, and look out for plunder. They begun to be a leetle too sassy for cumfirt.

1840，[Davy] Crockett，“Colonel Crockett’s History of the Life of Gen. [William Henry] Harrison, alias Old Tippecanoe”, in The American Miscellany of Popular Tales, Essays, Sketches of Character, Poetry, and Jeux d’Esprit. By Transatlantic Authors，卷 II, 期 49, London: G. Berger, Holywell Street, Strand; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; and all booksellers, →OCLC，頁 315，列 1:

Oh, did n't I handle my gun, boys, – / My gun, boys, with shout upon shout? / And did n't the balls rain among us? / And did n't the blood run about? / A shipmate was dashed dead beside me; / The splinters flew – death-yells uprolled; / Oh, sassy that fight of old Erie! / More sassy, though, Perry the Bold!

1867，Alfred B[illings] Street，“Perry the Bold”, in The Poems of Alfred B. Street. In Two Volumes，卷 II, New York, N.Y.: Published by Hurd and Houghton, 459 Broome Street，頁 129:

Brought her down with a crack of the bull-dogs, jest as she was makin' off: she's the sassiest of the whole lot, as white wenches always be.

1873，M. A. Avery，“The Guerillas.—Death of Major Hunter.”, in The Rebel General’s Loyal Bride: A True Picture of Scenes in the Late Civil War，Springfield, Mass.: W. J. Holland and Company, →OCLC，頁 116:

Jokes about blacks were more closely drawn from English jokes mocking servants and Irish people […] Many other jokes featured sassy servants besting their masters by playing dumb and taking instructions overly literally—another trope common in English servant jokes.

2006，John Wood Sweet，Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830，Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN，頁 303:

But for those of you that don't know, what men really like, is for you to talk to them with a feisty little attitude. You spark their fire when you do that. The feistier and sassier you act, the better.

2014，Rachel Renee，“Dirty Talk”, in She Rules: A Must Have Rulebook for Dating，Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN，頁 125:

The top isn't really slutty. Just a little sassier, more revealing than I'd usually go for.

2014，Jane Costello，章號 20, in The Time of Our Lives，London: Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN，頁 179:

There was only so much packing one could do that was appropriate for army training and I was pretty sure my sassiest outfit and latest face enhancers were not required.

2014，Kate O'Leary，章號 1, in Twell and the Rebellion (The Como Chronicles; book 2)，White Bear Lake, Minn.: Fire and Ice, Melange Books, →ISBN，頁 5:

活泼的，精力充沛的，活跃的

Olives and preserved lemons add sassy tartness to salads, chicken tagines, and fish dishes […]

2012，Jeff Koehler，Morocco: A Culinary Journey with Recipes from the Spice-scented Markets of Marrakech to the Date-filled Oasis of Zagora，San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN，頁 10:


toasty

toastier (comparative)
toastiest (superlative)

The toasty smell of baked baguettes pulled out of the oven, of vanilla, butter and sugar from the pastries, resonated in the air.

2013，Michelle Zarrin，From My Heart to Yours，頁 1:

[…] would you want to go to the expense of setting up a furnace in the cellar? It would make the whole house toasty warm; […]

1918，Gene Stratton-Porter，A Daughter of the Land:


toasty

Ciara and I were in the backroom having a cup of tea and a ham and cheese toasty, along with a bowl of potato leek soup we'd ordered from the café next door. Ciara set her toasty down and took a sip of her soup.

(Can we date this quote?)，Cindy Kline，Shamrocks, Shenanigans and Murder: A Molly McGuire Cozy Mystery Book 3，Cindy Kline:

Before we begin, let's get one thing straight: a grilled cheese sandwich is not just a cheese toasty. A toasty is made in one of those pillow-shaped machines (preferably with a baked bean and Cheddar filling). A grilled cheese sandwich,[…]

2019年August8日，John Whaite，A Flash in the Pan: Simple, speedy stovetop recipes，Octopus Books, →ISBN:


everyone and their dog

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"Mind you, this was years before everyone and their dog had a cell phone."

2009，Susan Case，That's a Dead One Alright，Tate Publishing, →ISBN，頁 114:


raw dog

來自raw (“沒有保險套”) + dog out (“以性慾來接近某人”)。

I advise against going raw dog unless you are in a committed relationship and somewhat certain she is not screwing other guys, but if you do it raw then make sure you never ejaculate inside her, even if she is on the pill.
我建议不要无套做爱，除非你的恋爱关系已经稳定，并且确定她没有和其他男人鬼混，但如果确实无套了，那么请确保你永远不会在她体内射精，即使她服用了避孕药。

And she lets me fuck her raw dog now, and cum all up in her until her ears pop.

2009，Omar Tyree，Dirty Old Men (And Other Stories)，Strebor Books, 出版於 2009, →ISBN，頁 254:

[…] When you were eating my pussy and going raw dog in me, you wanted to hear every little thing I had to say. . . "

[…] 当你舔我的屄、无套插我的时候，你想听我说的每句话…”

2010，Cydney Rax，Brothers and Wives，Three Rivers Press, 出版於 2010, →ISBN，頁 23:


raw dog

來自raw (“沒有保險套”) + dog out (“以性慾來接近某人”)。

raw dogs (third-person singular present)
raw dogging (present participle)
raw dogged (past participle)

Never go raw dogging with the other woman; it's just not safe.

永远不要和其他女人无套做爱；这并不安全。

2005，Erica L. Perry，A Lesson or a Blessing，AuthorHouse, 出版於 2005, →ISBN，頁 27:

[…] You don't now^([sic]) shit about that girl yet you round here raw dogging her. That ho could be dying from HIV or AIDS, she could have a million kids and trying to set you up to be her next baby daddy, you fucking dummy. For all I know she could be a fucking psycho.”

2006，Cheryl Sutherland，Chocolate Ty，Platinum Peach Press, 出版於 2006, →ISBN，頁 42:

“Well, you know...taking you into consideration and everything, I ended up letting him raw dog my coochie. […]

“嗯，你知道……考虑到你和其他一切，我最终还是让他无套肏了我的屄。 […]

2008，Allison Hobbs，Big Juicy Lips: Double Dippin' 2，Strebor Books, 出版於 2008, →ISBN，頁 44:

The friend who did this raw dogged her drunk.

做这件事的那个朋友在她喝醉后还无套肏了她。

2011，John Tamar，1,001 Drunk Acts，Strategic Book Group, 出版於 2011, →ISBN，頁 163:


innovent

innovents (third-person singular present)
innoventing (present participle)
innovented (past participle)

So in effect, the millennials are generating 3 key trends: Innoventing, Neo-Bartering, and Q-Rewarding. Innoventing. They say you can’t reinvent the wheel, but millennials definitely believe they can make it better. They are innovative inventors that are re-creating and bettering existing products and technologies.

2011年October21日，Cheryl Swanson，“Millennials and the Recession Trends: Innoventing, Neo-Bartering, and Q-Rewarding”, in Popsop，存檔自the original on 2017-09-11:

There are the classic inventions (a magical new mech), the innovations (a new animated IP or a board game that’s built a fan base already from a crowdfunding site) and then there’s both (Paw Patrol, the magical toy mech plus the story). When you combine both, you get innoventing. If you can create an idea that has the combination of inventing (conceiving a unique idea) and innovation (executing that unique idea so it has the ability to disrupt) then you’re ‘innoventing’ – you’ve gone beyond the raw invention and shown the vision by applying it to a commercial market.

2019年March20日，Fi Murray，“Innoventing: a new era of inventing?”, in Mojo Nation，存檔自the original on 2021-01-17:

And I wish readers success in innoventing with this book. Good luck!

2020年January18日，Michael A. Orloff，Modern TRIZ Modeling in Master Programs: Introduction to TRIZ Basics at University and Industry，Springer Nature, →ISBN:

During about last four decades, besides nature’s ferocities and degradation of environmental ecosystem, new risks and challenges are from cyber criminals. Digital assets are their targets for extracting ransoms in millions. They infiltrate through the pores of system peripherals and spread malwares using digital tools. The irony is that, they use mostly the same tools, e. g., AI, ML, RPA, etc. to spawn new malwares, which digital scientists use for ‘innoventing’ solutions and creating deterrents for malwares. This battle is gradually taking dreadful dimensions.

2020 February，Paritosh Basu，“DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – RISK ENABLED PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE”, in The Management Accountant，經由 Magzter，存檔自the original on 2023-01-12:


count one's blessings

counts one's blessings (third-person singular present)
counting one's blessings (present participle)
counted one's blessings (past participle)

知足，感激自己现在的状况

Rupert Murdoch isn't somebody to sit back and count his blessings.

1995, Richard Lacayo et al., "Bart Simpson Calling," Time, 22 May:

The other out-of-town Dons patiently listened, perhaps counting their blessings that each had a city all to himself.

2006，Mark Winegardner，The Godfather's Revenge, →ISBN，頁 175:


shotgun wedding

暗指新郎被新娘的亲戚用霰弹枪逼上婚礼堂。

If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married.

2012，Charles W. Dunn，American Culture in Peril，University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN，頁 48:

以类似方式强行促成的关系

But all this fails when we try to have a shotgun wedding between the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory.


string along

strings along (third-person singular present)
stringing along (present participle)
strung along (past participle)

哄骗，画饼 （让对方长时间误解自己有某种打算）

She's been telling me for ages that she wants to meet up, but won't give me a date. I'm convinced she's stringing me along.

她一直说想和我见面，但是就是不约日期，我觉得她在耍我。

What irks is the DfT's response of stringing the industry along. Far better would be for the DfT to say: "No, we are not upgrading this or that part of the railway - we must make the best of what we have."

2021年May5日，Philip Haigh，“I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL，期 930，頁 51:


trice

源自中古英語 trīcen、trice、trise (“拉或推；掳走；偷窃”)，源自中古荷蘭語 trīsen (“升起”)（现代荷蘭語 trijsen）或中古低地德語 trissen (“拉斜杠帆”)。之后词源不详。同源词包括丹麥語 trisse、tridse (“用滑轮拖”)、低地德語 trissen、tryssen、drisen、drysen、德語 trissen、triezen (“烦扰，折磨”)。

trices (third-person singular present)
tricing (present participle)
triced (past participle)

The tent is made of light, close, unbleached duck, […] A window, six inches square, is fitted at the upper end with a flap to trice up or haul down.

1875 August，Clements R[obert] Markham，“Arctic Ice-travels”, in The Popular Science Monthly，卷 VII, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC，頁 479:

（尤指用绳子）拖； 用绳子拉起或绑起来

... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.

One of the two men landed had shot and wounded the mate, and the other, known as "Doublin Jack," had knocked the second mate down with a handspike. Captain Low put both these men in irons, triced them up in the mizzen rigging, and gave them each four dozen lashes of ratline stuff, which they had well earned.

1911，Arthur H[amilton] Clark，“California Clippers of 1852—The ‘Sovereign of the Seas’”, in The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews 1843–1869，New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam's Sons […], →OCLC，頁 215:


trice

源自中古英語 trīce、trise，用于短语at a trīce (“很快地，一下子”，字面意思是“用一拉”)，后亦用于短语in a trice、on a trice以及with a trice。最终源自中古英語 trīcen，见[[#词源 1]]。

Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay;
 It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May."
 And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum;
 Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

1907，Robert W[illiam] Service，“The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses，New York, N.Y.: Barse & Hopkins, publishers, →OCLC，頁 53:

And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.

2013，J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee，章號 22, in The Childhood of Jesus，Melbourne, Vic.: The Text Publishing Company, →ISBN，頁 220:


chase one's tail

chases one's tail (third-person singular present)
chasing one's tail (present participle)
chased one's tail (past participle)

People wanting to get married . . . would have to trail around separately to arrange flowers, cars, a photographer, the cake and a reception venue. . . . "At the moment, they have to chase their tail making sure all these things are done."

1994 Aug. 4, Lynn Eaton, "Planning a wedding in one easy stop," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 26 June 2014):

"You're forever chasing your tail when you're dealing with such large areas. . . . It was difficult to see how we would ever get on top of the problem."

2001 July 2, Lisa Clausen, "Warren Peace Australia missed its first chance to wipe out the rabbit scourge," Time (retrieved 26 June 2014):

The phone rings pretty much immediately and I have a conversation, usually apologising for something or explaining why I haven't managed to do something. I'm always chasing my tail.

2006 Aug. 14, Natalie Hanman, "Hidden passions," The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 26 June 2014):

“If you end up changing your strategy based on hot or cold tendencies, more often than not, you’re chasing your tail and you’re actually destroying value rather than sticking to what you know is right based off the data over a longer period of time,” Luhnow said.

2012 Aug. 12, Tyler Kepner, "Astros Begin Again, Starting With Youth and Hope," New York Times (retrieved 26 June 2014):

What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.

2014年November17日，Roger Cohen，“The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:


of old

In days of old.

I know him of old.

The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.

1960 December，“The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 713:

These deals have made them more like the radio and TV stations of old — picking popular acts, paying handsomely for their work, assuming greater responsibility for their output — and less like the neutral platforms they once claimed to be.

2022年January31日，Kevin Roose，“Spotify’s Joe Rogan Problem Isn’t Going Away”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


walk out on

walks out on (third-person singular present)
walking out on (present participle)
walked out on (past participle)

离开，丢下 （尤指自己的伴侣）

What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?

1967，“With a Little Help from My Friends”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band，演出者 Beatles:


dead wood

Everybody knows that when you have a layoff, you use it as chance to get rid of the people you wanted to get rid of anyway, but couldn't document or hadn't bothered documenting as bad employees […]。If you don't have much dead wood, you hope they make you use a seniority list, because then you can say it's out of your control.

2001，Michael B. Arthur，Denise M. Rousseau，The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era，Oxford University Press, →ISBN，頁 140:


scaredy-cat

I don't care — I wouldn't be such a scaredy-cat for anything.

1918，Florence Kiper Frank，“The Child and the Little Sister”, in The Midland，卷 4，頁 61:

Oh, yes, do let's dance together—it's so nice to meet a man who isn't a scaredy-cat about catching my beri-beri.


punctus

源自中世紀拉丁語 punctus (“标点符号”)。

中世纪时使用的一种结束句子的标点符号（‧），为句号的前身

In the sacerdotal prayers in col. a the punctuation is by punctus flexus, punctus elevatus and punctus.

1993，Malcolm Beckwith Parkes，Pause and Effect, Plates and Commentaries，頁 197:

The most common item of punctuation was the punctus or point.

2011年July22日，Tadao Kudouchi，English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan，De Gruyter, →ISBN，頁 172:

Curiously, the punctus versus was largely replaced with a punctus by ca.1100.

2015年August31日，“Medieval Manuscripts”, in Handbook of Medieval Culture，卷 2, De Gruyter, →ISBN，頁 1015:


punctum

Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.

1861，The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology:


the jig is up

jig曾指“活泼的舞蹈”，在伊丽莎白时代，还曾经是指“恶作剧”的俚语。该词即派生自这个弃用俚语词。

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（当自己说时）我们被打了个措手不及，我们完蛋了，我们穿帮了；（当对他人说时）你们已经被拆穿了，你们完蛋了

We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us.

When I first told 'em how the jig was up with us, that the British were going to have the land, without any fighting about it, I never see fellows so mad before in my life, unless it was Major Eaton at Washington when he sot out to flog Mr. Ingham.

1833，Seba Smith (as Jack Downing)，The life and writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down East in the State of Maine，Lilly; Wait; Colman & Holden，頁 176:

After I had returned home in the spring of 1893 from Washington, where I saw so many gray-haired men who had held high elective office begging for the crumbs from Cleveland's table, I gave my wife an account of what I observed, and told her that when the jig was up for me I would hasten back to Missouri to begin the practice of law once more and be a man among men.

1920，Champ Clark，My Quarter Century of American Politics，Harper & brothers，頁 96:

The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.

2007，Mary Newport, in Jerry Newport and Mary Newport，Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story，Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁 248:


beat the daylights out of

beats the daylights out of (third-person singular present)
beating the daylights out of (present participle)
beat the daylights out of (past)
beaten the daylights out of (past participle)
beat the daylights out of (past participle)

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Punching fast and furiously, I would beat the daylights out of them until they were bloody all over.

1993，Lester Sumrall，The Life Story of Lester Sumrall, →ISBN:

让...惨败 （尤指在肢体冲突中）

The guy beat the daylights out of me, and I made a dollar. My wrestling license cost five dollars.

2007，Greg Oliver，The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels, →ISBN，頁 42:


aggro

源自aggravation 的截斷形式 + -o (指小后缀)，受到了aggressive的影响。

But the thing to remember was that some women were prepared to provide an outlet, in spite of all the aggro, if the money was right. And lots of guys were prepared to pay, in spite of the aggro. And what the aggro boiled down to, if you thought about it, was the shame of being known to be the person who had been involved.

暴力行为，暴行；咄咄逼人的行为 （不一定发展为暴力）

Move along, lads; we don't want any aggro.

走开吧，兄弟，我们可不想动手。

That is the case because, according to Marsh, soccer hooliganism is one of Britain's principal forms of aggro. If it is true that there is an absence of aggro traditions in the USA — and there is a wealth of evidence which suggests that Marsh is wrong on this score — then it is reasoble to deduce from Marsh′s arguments that it is unlikely that phenomena such as soccer hooliganism could or ever will develop there.

1999，Eric Dunning，Sport Matters : Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation，頁 162:

‘We ain′t got a name yet. We′re into aggro.’
‘Aggro?’
‘Yeah, you know, aggression, aggravation. Aggro’.

2011，Jake Arnott，The Long Firm，unnumbered 頁:

仇恨值 （游戏中评估玩家的行为有多好战的数值，越高越容易遭到敌人攻击或者越容易吓走敌人）

To reduce one player's aggro level, the other must build up his own.

2007，Bendik Stang，Morten A. Osterholt，Erik Hoftun，The Book of Games Volume 2: The Ultimate Reference on PC & Video Games，頁 98:

What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive.

We asked for an ability to trasnfer^([sic]) our aggro to another player—were told that could cause some abuse.

2010，World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King，頁 187:


aggro

more aggro (comparative)
most aggro (superlative)

“The Chuckster say you two be finding aggro idiot who kilt Long,” said Dude.
I thought I understood but looked at Charles for help.
“Aggro means pissed off.” translated Charles. He still hadn't cracked a smile. Tardiness made Charles aggro.

2011，Bill Noel.，The Marsh: A Folly Beach Mystery，頁 70:

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the physically adept aggro femme had become a recurring motif in new circus and physical theatre.

2005，Peta Tait，Circus Bodies: cultural identity in aerial performance，頁 131:


in the buff

源自buff (字面意思是“褐黄色的”)，表示了皮肤的颜色。

She was in the buff on the beach.

The streaker ran across the playing field in the buff.

裸跑者光着身子跑过了操场。

Not to mention, nudity can be just plain convenient. “Laundry is minimal,” Schulte notes. It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.

2021年October18日，Ian Lecklitzner，“The Inevitable Rise of the Work-From-Home Nudist”, in MEL Magazine:


opinant

Could Mr. Sayers have held out for three minutes, for five minutes, for ten minutes more? He says he could. So we say we could have held out, and did and had beaten off the enemy at Waterloo, even if the Prussians hadn't come up. The opinions differ pretty much according to the nature of the opinants.

1860，The Cornhill Magazine，卷s 1-2，頁 757:


take exception

takes exception (third-person singular present)
taking exception (present participle)
took exception (past)
taken exception (past participle)

(及物带 to) 对...感到不快，反感，受到...的冒犯；反对

I think he took exception to the joke about environmentalists.

我觉得那个开环保主义者玩笑的笑话冒犯到他了。

I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction.

觉得只是因为我年轻我就没办法区分现实和虚构的成见让我感到不快。

I am sorry to learn that the senior medical staff of the Dreadnought Hospital take exception to portions of Sir Henry Burdett's letter […] which was published in the Times of July 11th.

1898 July 20, Percival A. Nairne, letter, published in the Lancet of 1898 December 10, page 1575:

[…] the body of a deceased Indian, wrapped in a blanket and reposing on the limbs of an old tree in the sandhills. Horatio Walker, then President of the Club and generally so sympathetic with artists, seemingly took exception to it, and Morris felt the silent criticism […]

1984，Jean S. McGill，Edmund Morris, Frontier Artist，Dundurn Press, →ISBN，頁 165:

Upset, about 20 Kuala Lumpur-based judges met on 25 March and decided that Salleh should write to the king explaining their position. The king apparently took exception to the letter or to the manner in which it was sent […]

1989，“Asia Yearbook”, in Far Eastern Economic Review，頁 167:


dead set

The result was that everyone made a dead set on Collins. It was the same in conversation. When he put his head in everyone turned on him. He was roared down unmercifully, with the inevitable result that he lost his temper.

2018，Frank O'Connor，The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution:


dead set

more dead set (comparative)
most dead set (superlative)

hell-bent

坚定的，执著的，死心塌地的，专注而不动摇的

坚定的，执著的，死心塌地的，专注而不动摇的

If John is dead set on marrying Catherine, his parents' objection will only provoke a falling out.

如果John一定要娶Catherine，他的父母肯定会过来闹翻的。

The governor is dead set against the concealed weapons permit legislation and will veto it even if it costs her the re-election.

There are people here who are dead set on convincing everybody this hurricane is the result of climate change.

2018年September11日，Rush Limbaugh，“Hurricane Florence Heads for the Carolinas”, in The Rush Limbaugh Show (radio)，存檔自the original on 2019-04-17:


cut of one's jib

源自cut (“样子，风格”)和jib (“艏三角帆”)，原为航海用语，指通过帆的形状来辨别远处航行的船只。俗语意可能是因为三角帆形似人的鼻子而产生。

cut of their jibs (plural)
cuts of their jibs (plural)

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常作构式“to like (or dislike) the cut of someone’s jib”。

（人的） 外貌，外表，风格 （自19世纪初叶）

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.

1896，Robert Barr，章號 XIII, in A Woman Intervenes: Or The Mistress of the Mine，New York, N.Y., London: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC，頁 122:

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

1911，John Oxenham [pseudonym; William Arthur Dunkerley]，“An Unexpected Guest”, in The Coil of Carne，Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC，頁 157:

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.

1922 February，James Joyce，“[Episode 13: Nausicaa]”, in Ulysses，Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]，頁 351:

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.

1934，John Masefield，The Taking of the Gry，London: William Heinemann, →OCLC，頁 22:

"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, […]

1959，Ken Jones，“The Eagles Gather”, in Destroyer Squadron 23: Combat Exploits of Arleigh Burke’s Gallant Force，Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: Book Division, Chilton Company, →OCLC，頁 60:

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

2003 June，Ted Bell，章號 42, in Hawke […]，New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN，頁 277:


at the mercy of

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任凭...处置的，对...束手无策的

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

1897年 12月（標示為1898年），Winston Churchill，章號 1, in The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

The ball game is scheduled for Saturday, but we're still at the mercy of the weather.

球赛定在周六，但是还是得看天气。


get the ball rolling

gets the ball rolling (third-person singular present)
getting the ball rolling (present participle)
got the ball rolling (past)
got the ball rolling
gotten the ball rolling

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Did you ever get the ball rolling on your plans to build a shed?

你有没有开始着手你的建小屋计划？

The execution of Littlefinger is formal, although his trial admittedly gives us ample opportunity to appreciate the tables finally turning on the man who got the ball rolling on all this bloodshed.

2017年August27日，Brandon Nowalk，“Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:


utilise

源自法語 utiliser，源自意大利語 utilizzare，源自utile (“有用的”)，源自拉丁語 ūtilis，源自ūtī (“使用”)。最早見於c. 1810。

utilises (third-person singular present)
utilising (present participle)
utilised (past participle)

許多寫作風格指導會建議讀者不使用 utilize 及 utilise，認為直接用 use 更好（同樣地，名詞 use 也要優於 utilization 和 utilisation）。在一般場景下，使用本詞可能會顯得比較浮誇（如“please utilise the rear door when exiting the aircraft”），因此權威辭書也會建議謹慎使用。
但在某些情況下，utilise 比需要迂言的 use 更合適，比如：

“投入使用”，如“... utilise the production capacities of the local industries fully before ordering from foreign industries”；

“消耗、消費”，如“... utilise the support that the system provides, such as by making the most of tax exemptions and special supplies”；

“充分利用”，如“... farmers must utilise their land fully to boost food security”.

The bodywork employs, where possible, the same constructional methods as for the standard B.R. coaching stock, in order to utilise existing jigs and press tools.

1959 March，“The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 125:

Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the slimmest of female figures could be comfortable in them; the space they occupy would have been better utilised to increase standing room).

1960 December，“The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 715:


swish

swisher (comparative)
more swish (comparative)
swishest (superlative)
most swish (superlative)

This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.

这个饭店看起来很高级，居然还有亚麻桌布。

All the shabby railway buildings in front of the station concourse have either been removed or transformed into a shopping complex and swish homes.

2020年June3日，Howard Johnston，“Regional News: Cambridge”, in Rail，頁 23:

When the boys go swish, they always score

2004，“Ladyflash”, in Thunder, Lightning, Strike，演出者 The Go! Team:

The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.

2014年October18日，Paul Doyle，“Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:


swish

"Fairies, nances, swishes, fags, lezzes — call 'em what you please — should of course be permitted to earn honest livings […]

1992，Leigh W. Rutledge，The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present:


swish

swishes (third-person singular present)
swishing (present participle)
swished (past participle)

The cane swishes.

In the stern of the low-laden canoe his paddle swished steadily and powerfully, with thrust of straight, stiff upper arm backed by a twisting swing of the body from the waist, and with every stroke the little craft leaped as if a giant hand had shoved her forward.

After Virginia came the twins, who were usually called "the Star and Stripes", as they were always getting swished.

Doctor Wordsworth and assistants would swish that error out of him in a way that need not here be mentioned.

c. 1842, William Makepeace Thackeray, Character Sketches


swish

嗖 （模仿快速拂过空气时发出的声音）

"Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!" he said.

1898，H.G. Wells，The War of the Worlds，London: William Heinemann，頁 84:


hit it

hits it (third-person singular present)
hitting it (present participle)
hit it (past participle)

He looks at the band behind him and says, “Hit it, boys!” The band launches into its own rendition of happy birthday.

2010，E. K. Schiller，Holly Schiller，The Midnight Hour，頁 196:

If I say you look fuckable, how would you react?
 Starin' at you, daydreamin' 'bout hittin' it from the back


beat it

beats it (third-person singular present)
beating it (present participle)
beat it (past)
beat it (past participle)
beaten it (past participle)

[…] and he said, "You beat it." So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.

1916，United States. Commission on Industrial Relations, Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly，Industrial relations: Final report and testimony，頁 10986:

Showin' how funky and strong is your fight / It doesn't matter who's wrong or right / Just beat it

1983，Michael Jackson （作曲作詞）, “Beat It”, in Thriller:


lightskin

有时候贬义地泛指娘娘腔的黑人，无论其肤色深浅。

A man who is getting ahead tends to seek a lighter mate, and because “a good man is hard to find,” it would be difficult for a lightskin girl consistently to reject darker people. A darker man who offers security, through social position and other advantages, may well be preferred to a lightskin man of little enterprise.

1941，W. Lloyd Warner, Buford H. Junker, Walter A. Adams，“Lightskin Women”, in Color and Human Nature: Negro Personality Development in a Northern City，Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education，頁 193:


wide awake

more wide awake (comparative)
most wide awake (superlative)

完全清醒的；警醒的，警觉的

"They are almost awake, not quite," said Lucy. She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is.

1951，C. S. Lewis，Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:

I woke with a start. With the blackout curtains closed I didn't know what time it was. I looked at my watch. It said four o'clock. I had been asleep for only two hours, but I was wide awake.

1978，Richard Nixon，“The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon，Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 1085:


shut-eye

With the night so quiet and peaceful, though, there was nothing he could do except return to camp and try to get a little shut-eye himself.

2008，William W. Johnstone，J. A. Johnstone，Preachers Showdown，Pinnacle Books, →ISBN，頁 172:


pooped

more pooped (comparative)
most pooped (superlative)

Well, I've walked 35 miles since yesterday to get here, so I'm pooped

2000，Jeff Alt，A Walk For Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail，頁 138:


grab some z's

grabs some z's (third-person singular present)
grabbing some z's (present participle)
grabbed some z's (past participle)

Thought I'd just crash here for the evening. Grab some z's.

2007，Denise Hildreth Jones，The Will of Wisteria, →ISBN，頁 278:

Have the men grab some z's. I'll take the first watch.

2011，Charles F. David，Fire Base X-Ray, →ISBN，頁 84:

No use thinking about it tonight. Time to grab some z's. I'm sure this will make more sense in the morning.

2017，Lynn Cahoon，Fatality by Firelight, →ISBN:


grab some Z's

grabs some Z's (third-person singular present)
grabbing some Z's (present participle)
grabbed some Z's (past participle)

You look beat, buddy. Grab some Z's on the way home.

1994，Dana Stabenow，A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN，頁 85:

Would you like a pillow, Mr. Mann? Looks as if you're about ready to grab some Z's.

Dean typed a quick reply to Colt with another heart, letting him know they were home safe and they were going to grab some Z's and call if he needed anything.


grab some Zs

grabs some Zs (third-person singular present)
grabbing some Zs (present participle)
grabbed some Zs (past participle)

I'll just chat with you while I finish up and then I'll be gone and you can grab some Zs.

2000，Bud Jones，Snake, Rolling in Hot, →ISBN，頁 323:

At the time, I thought it a good bit of practice for Nicolas to be able to just lie down most anywhere and grab some Zs, as it would serve him well his first year in college.

2003，A. Lee Chichester，Falcons and Foxes in the U.K.: The Making of a Hunter, →ISBN，頁 102:

He'd let her grab some Zs as soon as he could. In fact, having her sleep while he and Chaos worked would keep her out of trouble.


lameo

I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school. What a lame-o. Someone really should just put him out of his misery.

1999，Alan Ball，American Beauty (motion picture), spoken by Jane Burnham (Thora Birch):


goofball

麻醉药 （尤指巴比妥类药物）

Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides.


stargaze

stargazes (third-person singular present)
stargazing (present participle)
stargazed (past participle)

It was a very clear night so I paused to stargaze until I got cold and went in.

那天晚上天空很晴，我就停下来去看星星了，一直看到觉得冷了就回屋里了。

"That's right," declared Browning's companion. "I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, mine's ale."

1903，Burt L. Standish [pseudonym; Gilbert Patten]，Frank Merriwell at Yale:

Before books came into my life, I was given to stargazing and daydreaming. When books were given me, I fell upon them as a glutton pounces on his meat after a period of enforced starvation.


chillaxing

more chillaxing (comparative)
most chillaxing (superlative)

But these chillaxing engineers, led by Zuckerberg, were the ones who could bring the site back up with a few hours of frantic coding, and everyone else, considered ‘duller, incapable of quick and intelligent thought’, was there to serve the thing they had created and, therefore, them.

2013，Joanna Biggs，“Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books，卷 35, 期 7:


peace out

peaces out (third-person singular present)
peacing out (present participle)
peaced out (past participle)

Lauren was peaced-out in her bedroom, and almost everyone had gone home. I started chilling by the pool with the bartender,

2007，Dana Vachon，Mergers & Acquisitions，頁 154:

The suspect ate a light bulb and bit through a man’s neck before peacing out in a stolen taco van.

2008年October29日，“JELLO spells death for some”, in The Daily Evergreen, WA:

I cracked him with a stone I'd picked up in the garden. The inscription on the stone read PAZ. The man, peaced out, fell back

2005，David Terrenoire，Beneath a Panamanian Moon，頁 253:

催眠；走神；出幻觉 （意识，感觉被改变）

And she gets all peaced out and says she feels the presence of the Lord

1982，Stephen Levine with Ondrea Levine, Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying，頁 177:

After experiencing the totally peaced out acid trance, the first thing that occurred to most users was "Let's dose the President!"

1994，Douglas Rushkoff，Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture，頁 2 59:

"As they say out in Californication" — I try to sound peaced-out like someone from Santa Cruz — "Isabella's way bitching."

consider it some sort of "peaced out utopian higherminded enlightenment"

2008年April24日，“The light and dark side of DNA”, in MSNBC:

I am peacing out of that hellhole. Are you still thinking about leaving?"

2007，Dan Brown，The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle，頁 237:


modernise

modernises (third-person singular present)
modernising (present participle)
modernised (past participle)

The principal locomotive workshops now in use are those of the former Rhymney Railway at Caerphilly, modernised and re-equipped to meet the requirements of the new regime.

1939 September，D. S. Barrie，“The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine，頁s 159, 161:

The same applies to the toilets. Simply the ability to remove those labels that read "do not flush while the train is at a station" (a sticker that dates a train as 'old') modernises them no end.

2019年October23日，Pip Dunn，“The next king of Scotland”, in Rail，頁 50:


stave off

staves off (third-person singular present)
staving off (present participle)
staved off (past participle)
stove off (past participle)

He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office.

他喝了很多橙汁，希望能够抵御办公室里的冷气。

LANCE: Only through my training as a sex machine am I able to stave off genital turgidity.

2011，Jamie Noguchi，Yellow Peril: The View:

So it was perhaps political backlash from the trebling of public transport times between Harlech to Porthmadog if buses took over that staved off immediate talks of closure and the release of a £241,000 subsidy (2020: £3.8m).

2020年April8日，Howard Johnston，“East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail，頁 69:


whip up

whips up (third-person singular present)
whipping up (present participle)
whipped up (past participle)

Hurricane force winds damaged the North Clydeside catenary on January 17 and 18 and on February 12, causing interruptions to the Helensburgh services; in the neighbourhood of Craigendoran and Cardross, the seas in the Firth of Clyde were whipped up to the height of the conductor wires and the insulators themselves.

1962 April，“Motive power miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Modern Railways，頁 285:

Greater Anglia 745005 whips up snow as it passes Fox Street (near Colchester) on February 8, with the 1000 Norwich-London Liverpool Street.

2021年February24日，“Network News: ... but snow and ice forces Greater Anglia to sideline Class 745s”, in RAIL，期 925，頁 13, photo caption:


Dutch wife

源自Dutch (这里有“次等代替品”的意思) + wife

His eyes wide with surprise and fear, he clutched tightly the bolster — sweat- absorbing bedfellow of sleepers in the East — known as a Dutch wife. [...] "What do you mean? Who are you?" Maniam's great eyes, his black skin oiled with sweat, Maniam's hands pudgily clutching his Dutch wife.

1959，Anthony Burgess，Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy)，出版於 1972，頁 490:


stark naked

中古英語 stert naked（steort nakt, sternaked, star naked），前半部分源自古英語 steort (“尾巴”)。词形从“start-naked”变为“stark-naked”应该是因为该词被误解成了“starkly naked”一个变体。

"Give us a glass of 'stark naked,' Job! This plaguey fog's well nigh choked me," said Rube, spluttering and coughing, and vituperating it.

1870，Langford Cecil，Fenacre Grange，頁 15:


go to town

goes to town (third-person singular present)
going to town (present participle)
went to town (past)
gone to town (past participle)

She really went to town with the party preparations.

她准备派对准备得很开心。

The greatest impact, good and bad, fell on the city's northeast suburbs, 60-plus minutes from the downtown Huairou district, a key APEC venue. Obama and other VIPs spent just seven hours there Tuesday, but Huairou went to town as perhaps only China can. The district spent about $4.9 billion preparing for APEC, according to state media including the Beijing Youth Daily and China Daily newspapers.

2014年November12日，Calum MacLeod，“As with 2008 Olympics, China spends big to look good”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2014-11-14:

Never slow to bang the drum, the English press went to town, calling Lineker the “Matador of Madrid” and announcing that “Spain are Linekered.”

2018年October15日，Steven Pye，“When Gary Lineker scored four goals to help England win 4-2 in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The news channels had been the first to figure out that particular wrinkle, but the religions really went to town with it.

2018 November，N. K. Jemisin，How Long 'til Black Future Month?，Hachette, →ISBN:

Oh, I went to town in the last lockdown, spent a lot of money on the paints, the brushes, the figurines for a game called Hero Quest.

2022年May29日，Tom Lamont，引 Jim Howick, “‘We were always trying to push boundaries’: Jim Howick on breaking taboos, coping with life and the joy of dogs”, in The Observer, →ISSN:


tooshie

tushie的另一種拼寫法

Tooshie is a collage of humor, faith, stories and the psychology of food/body image issues.

2014，Cherrie Herrin-Michehl，Tooshie: Defeating the Body Image Bandit, →ISBN:

“I didn't see his tooshie in my bed.” Technically true. She'd dug her nails into it, but she hadn't seen it until he'd gotten up for his shower. ⸺“Whose tooshie?” ⸺“No one's!”

2017，Allyson Charles，Why Did It Have to Be You?，Lyrical Press, →ISBN，頁 239:


tooshy

tushie的另一種寫法

To the small child, feces and urine done in the diaper are warm and moist also. “No toilet!” protests a verbal two-year-old. “Why, darling?” “No, no, Mommy. It makes my tooshy too cold.”

1959，Dorothy Walter Baruch，“The Training Period and Sex”, in New Ways in Sex Education，New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 出版於 1961, section 3 (Sex Education that Grows with Your Child)，頁 80:

“Well, I’m certainly not going to go traipsing down there and get my tooshy shot off.”

1981，Ron Goulart，Brinkman，Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN，頁 70:

When Mr. Leiter falls he also makes a joke about hurting his “tooshy.”

1981，The New York Times Theater Reviews，頁 158:

‘Eyes in her toochus, this one,’ Gus said admiringly. […] George laughed as she followed Gus and reached out to pinch his own bottom hard. ‘Since when did you learn to speak American? This is your tooshy, not your however you said it.’

1997，Claire Rayner，Fifth Member (A Dr George Barnabas Mystery)，Leicester: Charnwood, 出版於 1998，頁s 355–356:

You’re going to get a spanking for that one. Your tooshy will be sore.

1998年April9日，“Horoscopes”, in The Stoutonia，卷 88, 期 23, Menomonie, Wis.: University of Wisconsin–Stout，頁 5:

When I sat down I discovered what the mats were for. They were much cooler on my tooshy than the hot lumber.

2001，William N. Harris，“Banya”, in Siberian Shivers, →ISBN，頁 73:

Fake snow covered the counter by the register and a four-foot dancing Santa wiggled his tooshy next to the front door.

2009，Denise Belinda McDonald，Second Chances，Macon, Ga.: Samhain Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN，頁 149:

Frank had to give me a shot of progesterone every night in the tooshy and if I did get pregnant, every night for three months – yikes!

2015，Stephanie Bachman，Solving the Infertility Puzzle: One Couple’s Journey to Parenthood，Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

Just as I had accepted my seemingly inevitable demise, a pair of arms wrapped around me, catching me right before my tooshy met the icy concrete.

2022，Susan Hatler，The Christmas Competition, →ISBN:


fraidy cat

MURROW: Do you remember the most severe disciplinary action taken against you when you were a youngster, Mr. President?
TRUMAN: Well, I was one of these fraidy cats who usually obeyed the rules and they didn't have to get after me very often.

1964，Harry S. Truman，Edward R. Murrow，片头起13:07, in MP66-7 Harry S. Truman Interviewed by Edward R. Murrow, February 1957 (5 of 12)，Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:


bell-end

I don't care who he is: he's acting like a bell-end.

我管他什么人，他就像个傻屄一样。

is that onion badgies, you meant. or perhaps you are referring to that infamous collection of bellends, known as w.b.a. (win bugger all). it seems they are doing quite well, although they are playing against part-timers. quit

1992年September28日，A. Dowson，“Re: West Bromwich Albion”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet), retrieved 2017-08-03, message-ID <92272.160610ADOWSON@ESTEC.BITNET>:


pack heat

packs heat (third-person singular present)
packing heat (present participle)
packed heat (past participle)

If the current trend toward relaxation of concealed-weapons laws continues, soon the most important gun restrictions may involve destinations: the states will probably allow various venues—public gathering places, offices, stores—to ban firearms on the premises. The only problem will be how to know who is packing heat.

1995年March27日，David Van Biema，“Peekaboo: The New Detector”, in Time:


japonise

japonises (third-person singular present)
japonising (present participle)
japonised (past participle)

But Japanese political predominance, and constant intercourse during three centuries, have almost japonised the island.

1895，Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan，頁 5:

Not methods alone are borrowed wholesale, but even plots, the proper names which occur in the stories being slightly japonised, as Shimizu for Smith, Risa for Eliza, and details being altered so as to suit Japanese social conditions.

1927，B.H. Chamberlain，Things Japanese，頁 274:

But japonise it into Benkei and the difficulty vanishes, to say nothing of the apparent prop given to the story of Yoshitsune's visit to Yezo, by the fact of the name of his celebrated henchman Benkei thus figuring in the geography of the island.

1996，Kirsten Refsing，Early European Writings on the Ainu Language:


marxisant

more marxisant (comparative)
most marxisant (superlative)

Certainly Bosher's approach differs significantly from that of a marxisant sociologist like George Comninel[…]

1993，Gwynne Lewis，The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate，頁 111:


elbow grease

It is astonishing what miserable saws are sometimes used by mechanics, or those claiming to be such. The only way they can be coaxed or driven through the wood is by having an enormous set, a liberal use of oil, and another lubricator called elbow-grease.

1864，Henry Wells Holly，章號 3, in The Art of Saw-Filing，頁 12:

When we were young we used to be told, in our house at home, that "elbow-grease" was the one essential necessary to getting a tough piece of work well done. If a mahogany table was to be made to shine, it was elbow-grease that the operation needed.

1879，Anthony Trollope，章號 5, in William Makepeace Thackeray:

Some soapy water and a little elbow grease and we'll have the Glam Van clean in no time.

2019 Sunny, "Violet's Adventure", Sunny Day


snooty

snootier (comparative)
snootiest (superlative)

好自夸的，高傲的，自命不凡的

He left out Town & Country, the magazine for snooty East Coast liberals.

ever since she landed the National gig sheʼs got very snooty about struggling theatre mates, as if she alone has discovered the secret to being successful

2019，Bernardine Evaristo，Girl, Woman, Other，Penguin Books (2020)，頁 43:

Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.


an apple a day keeps the doctor away

源自英国。一类似谚语记载于1866年的威尔士，彭布罗克郡：“Eat an apple on going to bed, / And you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.”但是，苹果能治病的说法甚为古老。在英国作家John Clavell（1601年-1643年）所著戏剧The Soddered Citizen（首次演出约1631–1633年）中，有情节暗示胃灼热的人吃苹果后睡上一觉，第二天就会痊愈。

/əˈn‿æpəl‿ə ˈdeɪ ˈkiːps ðə ˈdɒktəɹ‿əˈweɪ/

/əˈn‿æpəl‿ə ˈdeɪ ˈkips ðə ˈdɑktɚ əˈweɪ/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-an apple a day keeps the doctor away.oga

Now, an apple is one of the most wonderful of fruits, and the most wholesome. The old adage went, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," and my young son, three years ago, when he was only three years old, came to me with an amendment to that and said: "Father, two apples a day keeps the dentist away," because there is not a better toothbrush than the apple, and he got the idea that two apples a day would keep the dentist away.

1919年August26日，Harvey W[ashington] Wiley, witness，“Statement of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley—Resumed”, in Cold-storage Legislation: Hearings before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session on Cold-storage Legislation […]，Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC，頁 861:

The apple has been as formidable in history as it has been in recipe books. […] It has inspired legend (Johnny Appleseed), nicknames (New York, "the big apple") and any number of old saws ("An apple a day keeps the doctor away").

1973年October18日，Thomas Grubisich，“When you deal with millions of apples a day”, in The Washington Post，Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC; quoted in “Statement of Bert E. Perry, Monitor Advocate, Virginia Employment Commission”, in Oversight Hearing on Department of Labor: Certification of the Use of Offshore Labor: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session […]，Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975年March20日, →OCLC，頁 82:

The saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" is often countered with the one "an onion a day keeps everybody away". Whether these were even proven true or not I do not know but I do know that both apples and onions were among the staples kept in our home.

1984，Louise E. Efnor，“Kill or Cure”, in Tales from Two Rivers III (A Corncrib Publication)，Macomb, Ill.: Two Rivers Arts Council, College of Fine Arts Development, Western Illinois University, →OCLC, part IV (Receipts by Folks)，頁 118，列 1:

an apple a day keeps the doctor away—an apple is nutritious and you will stay healthy if you eat one every day. My mother always told us that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, so we would eat apples to stay healthy.

2000 January，“Phrases from the Garden”, in English Teaching Forum: A Journal for the Teacher outside the United States，卷 38, 期 1, Washington, D.C.: United States Information Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁 51，列 1:

An old saying in Western countries goes, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", so now there is a new saying in China, "A sea cucumber a day keeps the doctor away".

2004，Jiaxin Chen，“Present Status and Prospects of Sea Cucumber Industry in China”, in Advances in Sea Cucumber Aquaculture and Management (FAO Fisheries Technical Paper; 463)，Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization, →ISBN, session I (Status of Resources and Utilization)，頁 35:

He advocated the increased use of fruit, for he believed in the old saying, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

1887年November26日，“The Pomological Show”, in The Wrexham Advertiser, and North Wales News，卷 XL, Wrexham, Clwyd: Selina Bayley, Charles George Bayley, and George Bradley, →OCLC，頁 5，列 6:

The old adage, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away," might quite as well have read "a carrot or an onion a day," and probably the result would be about the same as regards reducing the doctor's bill. Vegetables of all kinds are necessary in the diet, but particularly valuable are those available in the spring and summer, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture.

1921年June3日，“Vegetables are cheap for food”, in Weymouth Gazette and Transcript，卷 LV, 期 22 (number 2882 overall), Weymouth, Mass.: Gazette and Transcript Publishing Company, →OCLC, 2nd section，頁 11，列 3:

Many people believe that the concept of an "apple a day keeps the doctor away" is just a played out, overused saying that adults made up to get their children to eat healthier.

2010年August5日，Michael C. Allen，章號 2, in An Apple a Day: Getting Back to Basics Achieves Total Health and Wellness，Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN，頁 5:


Excalibur

源自中古英語 Excalaber，源自古法語 Escalibor、Escaliborc，Calliborc的修复形式，其为Calibourne的变换形式，源自中世紀拉丁語 Caliburnus（Geoffrey of Monmouth，约1136年），受到了calibs (“steel”)的影响（因为chalybs），变换自古威爾士語 Caledbulch（对比现代Caledfwlch），其为由caled (“硬的”)和bwlch (“裂缝”)构成的复合词。与愛爾蘭語中的圣剑名Caladbolg有关，其字面意思为“坚硬的腹部”，即“贪婪的”。

在亚瑟王的传说故事中，年轻的亚瑟王成功地将石中剑拔出，证明了自己的命运是成为王。当他当上王以后，湖夫人将一把剑赠给了他。在早期版本的传说中，这把湖中剑就是王者之剑，而另有版本说，湖夫人所赠的剑才是王者之剑。近来的故事复述将两把剑描述为同一把剑。

王者之剑，断钢圣剑，斩铁剑 （亚瑟王的圣剑）

Until recently, suppression of ethnicity has perhaps been the leading characteristic of the trend of thought of these Jewish intellectuals. Some, like Noam Chomsky and I. F. Stone, have been considered by some Jews to be so suppressed—or at least so overcompensating for their being Jewish—as to be regarded as anti-Semitic on some issues. Such men flaunt their universalism like Excaliburs of truth and objectivity.

1974，Stephen D. Isaacs，Jews and American Politics，Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN，頁 53:

And we would see fish swimming among the tall bulrushes that rose like Excaliburs out of the lake.

1998，Imogen Stubbs，“The Undiscovered Road: Northumberland”, in Amazonian: The Penguin Book of Women’s New Travel Writing，Penguin Books, →ISBN，頁 228:

You and I, we are not alone, and our screwdrivers are our flashing Excaliburs as we sally forth to make small parts of the fragmented world whole again.

2017，James May，The Reassembler，Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN，頁 19:


Nosferatu

可能源自一个指吸血鬼的罗马尼亚语词。该词在布莱姆·斯托克于1897年所著小说《德拉库拉》和F·W·穆瑙执导的1922年德国电影《不死殭屍—恐慄交響曲》的影响下得到普及。参见英语维基百科中关于该词词源的解释（以及其参考资料）。

/ˌnɒsfəˈɹɑːtuː/

"Friend Arthur, if you had met that kiss [...] you would in time, when you had died, have become nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have filled us with horror."

1897，Bram Stoker，Dracula，出版於 1993，頁 192:

Those of us who have dabbled much in the lore of the nosferatu tend to think of them as imaginative creations of the German and English Romantics, and not without reason.

2018 November，Kevin Jackson，“Something to Sink Your Teeth Into”, in Literary Review:

While it may have been capable of flight, it almost certainly spent its time on Hateg crawling about on its wrists, with its great leathery wings folded over its body like a shroud. A gigantic kind of Nosferatu comes to mind.

2018，Tim Flannery，Europe: A Natural History，頁 26:


Fenrir

借自古諾爾斯語 Fenrir (“沼泽栖息者”)、Fenrisulfr (“芬里斯狼”)。

芬里尔 （古诺尔斯神话中的一匹巨狼）

Lokasenna, stanzas 37-40, comprise an exchange between Týr and Loki. Loki boasts that Fenrir tore off Týr's arm; Týr responds that although he may be missing his hand, Loki is missing Hródrsvitnir, that is, the famous wolf, Fenrir.

2001，John Lindow，Handbook of Norse Mythology，ABC-CLIO，頁 113:

Feared and misunderstood, Fenrir was the bringer of doom to the gods and was known as "an axe-age, a sword-age, a wind-age, a wolf-age before the wrecking of the world."

2009，Sarah Bartlett，The Mythology Bible，Sterling Publishing Co.，頁 294:

It is my own opinion that the Black Shuck is another manifestation of Fenrir, the large and terrible wolf, who is the eldest child of Loki and the giantess Angrboda.

2011，Nick Redfern，“Phantom Hounds of the Woods”, in Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside，Visible Ink Press，頁 46:


fuck with

fucks with (third-person singular present)
fucking with (present participle)
fucked with (past participle)

roll with

与...合作，与...有关联； 喜欢，中意

与...合作，与...有关联； 喜欢，中意

特別用於非洲裔美國人白話

I fuck with you heavy.

“I’m promoting you, dawg. I’m planning an early retirement, and I gotta know that my business is in good hands. I worked hard to get shit to this point, yo. You think you could handle being the boss one day?” “Muthafuckin’ right,” Smurf said beating his chest. “I’m ready to do whatever is asked of me for the team.” “That’s why I fuck with you, Smurf,” Dink said with a sly smile.

2005，Lisa Lennox，Crack Head, →ISBN，頁 211:

“Yo, Kid, Dude is my cousin.” “Oh well! I’m sorry, Son, but your cousin fucked up!” “Nah, I mean, you’re my peoples. I fuck with you heavy. I don’t even fuck with that nigga like that, but he is family. If you kill him, then I gotta go to the funeral.”

2012，Michael Archer，Trunk-Space: The Retribution of A Psychopath, →ISBN:

How can I fuck with the fun again, when I'm known?

2013，“Tennis Court”, in Pure Heroine，演出者 Lorde:

“Boss, no disrespect. I fuck with you, and what shorty just pulled was foul. I know y’all got history, but I hope you ain’t planning on going back to the bitch anytime soon.”

2017，Dana Shontale，Naked Truth, Naked Truths, →ISBN:

RODOLFO RAMIREZ (played by Amaury Nolasco):What do you know about how we roll on the West coast? TOMMY EGAN (played by Joseph Sikora): Not much. But I fucks with that Cali herb hard.

2019年October7日，Courtney A. Kemp, Theo Travers, Andre J. Ferguson，章號 7 (片头起21:15), in Power(Like Father, Like Son) (6) (TV series), spoken by Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora):


unfuckwithable

more unfuckwithable (comparative)
most unfuckwithable (superlative)

Ideally they should just be clones of some client image downloaded from a server which is centrally managed and unfuckwithable thereafter.

1995年December4日，Gromit，“AlphaStations UNSECURE!!!!”, in comp.sys.dec (Usenet), retrieved 2023-03-25:

It can make you as close to unfuckwithable as any tough guy is likely to get.

2013，Adrian Van Young，The Man Who Noticed Everything:

I put on my wet suit, grabbed my surfboard, and went to battle the unmerciful Pacific Ocean — fierce by nature, unforgiving by force, and totally unfuckwithable in every way.

2015，Bill Kreutzmann，Benjy Eisen，Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead:


tremulous

源自拉丁語 tremulus，源自tremō (“抖动”)。与古希臘語 τρέμω (trémō)同源。

more tremulous (comparative)
most tremulous (superlative)

"Thank God!" he cried brokenly, all the pent emotion of the long night vibrant in his tremulous voice.

1919，William MacLeod Raine，章號 27, in A Man Four-Square:

Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.

1956，Delano Ames，章號 12, in Crime out of Mind:

"You have lived here long?" Felix asked, with tremulous interest, as he took a seat.

1891，Grant Allen，章號 15, in The Great Taboo:

This, hard on the heels of the death of Julia Child in 2004, makes one tremulous about the future.

2009年October7日，Christopher Kimball，“Opinion: Gourmet to All That”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-08-18:


amogus

詞源樹
英語 among
英語 us
英語 amogus
Among Us的变体，其是Innersloth在2018年发行的一款社交推理游戏。因谜因在约2021年1月传播开来，最初形式为一个StoneToss漫画图中的台词被编辑成“amogus”，从而得到形式谬误的诙谐效果。

电子游戏《Among Us》中的船员或内鬼角色；阿莫古斯

Can I get a^([sic]) ipad,^([sic]) and pillow that looks like Amogus and a Baby Alive. Love, Kyleigh […] For Christmas, I would like an Among Us plushy^([sic]) because I love Among Us. […] Love, Jaxton

2021年December15日，“Santa Letters”, in The Cadiz Record，卷 138, 期 50，頁 S5:

While the peak of Among Us memes has been comfortably left in 2021, there are still dark remnants of the past remaining in pop culture today. One has to look no further than a surprise "amogus" in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

2022年April13日，Jamie Dunkin，“You can't escape 'Among Us' memes, even in 'LEGO Star Wars'”, in We Got This Covered:

We reached out to Innersloth to hear the devs' thoughts on the popular amogus art template. Community director Victoria Tran sent over a brief comment.

2022年October17日，Austin Wood，“Among Us is now the best worst art tool, and the devs say it's "absolutely inspired"”, in GamesRadar+:

For example, the Scholar’s Scavenge that spanned most of the first day sent randomised teams to the Siam Amazing Park to tick off a list of increasinbly bizarre ice-breaking prompts, including “film a singing duel between the best and worst singers”, “show a WSC staff member a wild amogus”, “Initiate a dinosaur-alpaca feud”, and many, many more.

2022年September30日，“Winning World Scholars at the Global Round!”, in Patana News，卷 25, 期 7, Bangkok Patana School，頁 4:

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sussy baka

源自sussy (“可疑的”) + baka (“蠢的”)。在约2021年由TikToker Akeam Francis的影响下普及开。

一般有讽刺意味，使用时一般是直接开这个词的玩笑，而非用于辱骂。

"Sussy" and "sus" are words used in the videogame Among Us to describe someone shifty or suspicious, whilst baka means "fool" in Japanese. So to be a sussy baka is to be a suspicious fool, presumably – although it appears that the meme has taken this meaning and ran with it a little.

2021年May4日，Harry Ainsworth，“What does 'sussy baka' mean and why does everyone on TikTok say it?”, in The Tab，存檔自the original on 2022-10-25:

Hopefully, that research means that, even if we're "sussy bakas," we're not entirely "dekus."

2021年May5日，Theo Salaun，“What is "Sussy Baka" on TikTok? Among Us & anime trend goes viral”, in Dexerto，存檔自the original on 2022-10-24:

There's no telling what the next big thing will be, but one thing is certain: viral phrases are here to stay. So the next time you want to make fun of your friend, just call them a "Sussy Baka!"

2022年May6日，Cody Raschella，“What does 'Sussy Baka' mean and where did it originate?”, in We Got This Covered，存檔自the original on 2022-08-11:

How did these law-and-order guys end up in this video? Well, Cameo, of course – the video platform that allows people to pay celebrities to record videos of themselves saying anything the buyer wants. Sometimes, this produces hilarious results (Dean Norris, aka Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad, calling Walter White "a sussy baka" comes to mind).

2022年June30日，Austin Sanders，“Decruiting APD Artists/Activists Imagine a World Without Police, One Cop at a Time”, in The Austin Chronicle，存檔自the original on 2022-08-11:


to write home about

重要的，厉害的，值得一提的

‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

1963，Margery Allingham，章號 15, in The China Governess:


cold fish

He wouldn't have thought her such a cold fish. Pity. Still, there was plenty of time. Perhaps when she got used to his company she would thaw a little.

You're a cold fish. You have no heart.

2003，Robert Wilson，The Blind Man of Seville, →ISBN，頁 13:


whack off

whacks off (third-person singular present)
whacking off (present participle)
whacked off (past participle)

Did I mention that when I was fifteen I took it out of my pants and whacked off on the 107 bus from New York?

1969，Philip Roth，“Cunt Crazy”, in Portnoy’s Complaint，New York: Random House:

[…] why is it that I am discomfited by the bizarre fact that the one thing she will do, though in a pleasureless and rather perfunctory way, is to whack me off hour after hour until I am a lifeless and juiceless stalk, exhausted and even humiliated by this dumb pursuit?

1979，William Styron，章號 14, in Sophie’s Choice，New York: Random House:


teeter

teeters (third-person singular present)
teetering (present participle)
teetered (past participle)

He teetered on the brink of the precipice.

他在峭壁的边缘摇摇欲坠。

The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.

2019年November21日，Samanth Subramanian，“How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:

This is not a land of blowouts. It’s a middle ground, and that’s reflected in voter registration rolls. Nearly 2.6 million North Carolinians declare themselves unaffiliated, while just over 2.4 million identify as Democrats and just under 2.2 million as Republicans. We don’t tilt. We teeter.

2023年May4日，Frank Bruni，“Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times:


friend with benefits

可能首次由艾拉妮丝·莫莉塞特使用于1995年歌曲“Head over Feet”中，但是在这个歌词语境中，其似乎特指正式的交往关系而非随便的性伴侣关系。

“I’m just saying that usually when you have a friend who’s a girl, it’s not just that she’s your friend. Either you’ve known her a long time, or she’s a friend with benefits.”

Gender norms influence how young men orient themselves to sexual partners and girlfriends, and men’s procreative consciousness is sometimes affected by how they define a potential or actual sex partner (e.g., casual or serious girlfriend, “friend with benefits”, hookup).

2003，William Marsiglio，“Making Males Mindful of Their Sexual and Procreative Identities: Using Self-Narratives in Field Settings”, in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health，卷 35, 期 5:

“Can I be so bold as to ask if I can be a friend with benefits?”

The College Relationship is the hook up that turns into a “a person to hang out with,” more or less, a friend with benefits. This is a person whose company you sincerely enjoy, and you choose to spend extra time both hanging out and hooking up with, but there is no spoken commitment involved.

2005，Jennifer Klein，University of Pennsylvania:


wind up

winds up (third-person singular present)
winding up (present participle)
wound up (past participle)

roll up

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

raise

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches

wind down

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

roll down

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

lower

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

Of all their regrets, it was their inability to score an away goal that might wind up Klopp the most. Sadio Mané wasted a glorious chance in the first half and, late on, Mohamed Salah turned his shot against a post after a goal-line clearance had spun his way.

2019年May1日，Daniel Taylor，“Lionel Messi magic puts Barcelona in command of semi-final with Liverpool”, in The Guardian:

Mess around with drugs and wind up broke.

沾上毒品结果就是身无分文。

I followed the signs, and I wound up getting nowhere.

我跟着路标走，结果走到了不知道啥地方。

The Hound's afraid to go in. Maybe he's afraid the occupants will tell on him, but Beric points out that there's no smoke in the chimney or livestock in the yard, so it's probably deserted. It's not. Inside are the decaying corpses of the farmer and his little girl, in bed together with a knife on the floor. Beric CSIs that they were starving to death, so the man ended the suffering for both of them. And they might not have wound up that way if they hadn't met the Hound.

2017年July16日，Brandon Nowalk，“Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:

Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

2013年January13日，Brian Hayes，“Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist，卷 101, 期 1，頁 62:

Now, things got even more confusing. Farenholt and Laffey hadn't spotted the incoming Japanese Navy vessels, and were winding up to full speed to more-quickly bypass the cruisers. Duncan, of course, could see the radar contacts to its starboard, and so assumed that this increase in speed by its compatriots was the start of a general assault on the enemy. And so, not wanting to be left behind, it broke off and headed off into the darkness to start what turned out to be a one-ship torpedo assault.

2020年December9日，Drachinifel，片头起15:25, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN)，存檔自the original on 2022-12-04:

终止，关停 （合作关系，公司等）

Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note.

虽然他讲了坏消息，但他还是想以正面的语气结束演讲。

同類詞：wind down

A general feast, of which all the male inhabitants of the town partake, winds up the proceedings at the close of the nineteen days.

1911，James George Frazer，The Golden Bough，卷 8，頁 231:

In late April, residents were sent a blunt letter telling them that the town's ancient market, which had stopped because of the pandemic, and which really did date back to the reign of Queen Anne, would be wound up.

2020年September1日，Tom Lamont，“The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:


cut it

cuts it (third-person singular present)
cutting it (present participle)
cut it (past participle)

Sometimes, professional tools are necessary and homespun solutions just don't cut it.

有时候还是得用专业工具，平常的解决方法还是不够的。

I couldn't cut it as a poor man, stealing


coop up

coops up (third-person singular present)
cooping up (present participle)
cooped up (past participle)

使...窝在；将...困在 （处于一个狭窄受限的地方或出于束手无策的境地）

This was a fine day's outing for anybody who had been cooped up in the shops for a few months.

1944 September and October，A Former Pupil，“Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine，頁 285:


bite the big one

bites the big one (third-person singular present)
biting the big one (present participle)
bit the big one (past)
bitten the big one (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-bite the big one.ogg

"I thought all of dad's relatives bit the big one a long time ago."

1983，Susan Arnout，The Frozen Lady，頁 397:

Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...

1988，Barbara Hambly，The silicon mage，頁 5:

Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States.

1990，Norman Spinrad，Science fiction in the real world，頁 183:

To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.


ragequit

ragequits (third-person singular present)
ragequitting (present participle)
ragequit (past participle)
ragequitted (past participle)

/ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/

Having had my share of ragequitting teammates and unfinished campaigns -- I still haven't completed a L4D2 campaign on Expert -- I'll take a positive outlook and say that the complaints about difficulty amount to a longer and taller learning curve, that will give this game a longer lifespan than the first.

2009年November28日，rms，“What have you been playing... IN NOVEMBER 2009?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), message-ID <herjp3$ucc$1@news.eternal-september.org>:

Cheap insta-kill attacks have made me ragequit at least twice.

2010年February8日，Chris Whitworth，“Pow, Wallop & Bam”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), message-ID <slrnhn0725.gik.usenet.chris@parm.vs.topper.me.uk>:


ragequit

/ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/

Hardison: I don't know what happened. I had 'em and then I just—
Nate: Didn't anticipate the ragequit.
Hardison: You know gamer terminology?
Nate: I know the key to a good game is balancing boredom and frustration. Now the game — the puzzle's too easy, then the mark — the player — gets bored and walks away. The puzzle's too hard, then the player gets frustrated, and quits in a rage: ragequit.

2012年January1日，“The Gold Job”, in Leverage，季数 4, 集数 16 (Television), spoken by Alec HardisonandNate Ford (Aldis HodgeandTimothy Hutton):


herstory

her + history 組成的混成詞，其将history前半部分解释为his (“他的”)，并将其替换为了her (“她的”)。

Nobody thought of it as history, herstory, my-story, your-story, or our-story.

1969?，“Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, "1969 Mother Stonewall and the Golden Rats"”, in The Stonewall Reader，Penguin Classics, 出版於 2019, →ISBN，頁 107:


tum tum

tum-tum (“肚子”)的另一種寫法

(Turns towards me, opens his eyes and mouth, and hums the REPRISE somewhere down in his throat.) […] Friend No. 1 (stopping in his tum tum tum). What's he say?

tumtum (“一种鼓”)的另一種寫法

The toombah, a drum with tin jingles and shells, accompanied songs and dances of Africans on Antigua. A report in 1844 mentions the “tum tum” (toombah) and […]

2017，Dale A. Olsen, Daniel E. Sheehy，The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean，Routledge, →ISBN:


ofloxacin

Ofloxacin and ceftriaxone had the highest sensitivity pattern to these uropathogens.

2015年July24日，Fidelis Agwu Onu et al.，“Profile and microbiological isolates of asymptomatic bacteriuria among pregnant women in Abakaliki, Nigeria”, in Infection and Drug Resistance，卷 8, →DOI:


trepidation

借自拉丁語 trepidātiō，源自trepidō (“不安”)。

I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.

我迟疑了好久，最后还是决定让他不带我开我的车走了。

She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.

1915，Edgar Jepson，“The Reluctant Duke”, in Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl，Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC，頁 135:

She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?

1929，M. Barnard Eldershaw，章號 VII, in A House is Built:

The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.

2011年December10日，Marc Higginson，“Bolton 1 – 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:


transluce

形態上似乎來自拉丁語 trānslūceō (“閃耀；半透明”)，但亦有可能逆構自 translucent（來自同一拉丁語動詞）。

transluces (third-person singular present)
translucing (present participle)
transluced (past participle)

使光能夠透過，從而讓被照耀的物體半透明

[…] for her stainless soul transluced the fairest skin, making simplicity a grace, filling her large blue eyes with gentle rays; and her arch laughter with innocent mirth.

1904，John P. Lonargan，Cwan and Genevieve: A Tale of Love and Romance in the Days of Roderick, Last Monarch of All Ireland，頁 35:

By translucing the paper when the negative is otherwise finished the grain can be reduced to a minimum. The following translucing media may be mentioned: (1) Vaseline, (2) paraffin waxin paraffin, (3) castor oil and alcohol, (4) white wax ...

1915，The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America，頁 111:

The less transparent consciousness is, the less translucent will the world itself be. In other words, when consciousness is very opaque, it is not able to transluce the world. Now to transluce the world means to make it understandable.

1970, Robert S. Hartman, Robert. E. Carter, "Dialogue on Intrinsic Value" (1970), pages 122-23, quoted in 2014, Rem B. Edwards, John W. Davis, Forms of Value and Valuation: Theory and Application, Wipf and Stock Publishers (ISBN 9781625648471), page 119:

In his refusal to allow tropes to transluce into meaning, Donne locates spiritual significance not in the disembodied and abstract sphere but in the body itself.

2014，Kimberly Johnson，Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England，University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN，頁 32:

半透明或透明，光能夠透過

holy are the doors that admit
holy are the rivets that bind
holy are the windows that transluce

2006，Alexander Levering Kern，Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations，Andover Newton Publications，頁 5:

At the end of the dance, when “matter turned to spirit,” the two cliffs once again came together to form an arch but both rock structures were now lighted to transluce and transform into stained glass.

2007，Nicanor G. Tiongson，Salvador F. Bernal: Designing the Stage:

Cook the bacon in a pan, add the onion and cook until they start to transluce, then add the garlic and cook for another minute.

2018，Mattis Lundqvist，25 Low-Carbohydrate Recipes for the Slow Cooker: Delicious low carb recipes for all slow cooker fans - part 1: Measurements in grams，BookRix, →ISBN:


translucid

源自拉丁語 translucidus，源自trans (“across, through”) + lucidus (“lucid”)。对比法語 translucide。See translucent。

more translucid (comparative)
most translucid (superlative)

The cause is , for that in anger the spirits ascend and wax eager ; which is most easily seen in the eyes , because they are translucid ; though withal it maketh both the cheeks and the gills red

1631，Francis [Bacon]，“9。Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […]，第3rd版, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.


trepidatious

more trepidatious (comparative)
most trepidatious (superlative)

He looks a little trepidatious too, and we both laugh awkwardly as he nears me.

2020，Sophie Kinsella，Love Your Life，Dial Press, →ISBN:

Factor in Grammer’s outspoken Trumpism, which complicates the legacy of his defining role, and fans may be forgiven for feeling trepidatious.

2023年February27日，Elle Hunt，“‘Don’t make Frasier best friends with Elon Musk!’ Writers and comics offer their reboot tips”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


big house

作俚语时总是后接于“the”。

He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.

1948年November15日，“The End of Bad Boy Collins”, in Time:


spin-off

源自动词短语spin off。

hive-off

（从母公司的）独立，剥离，拆分；（由此产生的）独立公司，拆分公司

We are about to broach the fraught saga of the Circle Line, but there is another Metropolitan spin-off that comes first, one that has always appealed to me by the baleful beauty of its name: the City Widened Lines or 'The Widened Lines' for short.

2012，Andrew Martin，Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube，Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684777，頁s 51–52:


stone the crows

在20世纪10年代原为澳大利亚英语，“指以前看守农田并用石头砸糟蹋庄稼的乌鸦的职业”。

可以和其他类似俗语一起使用，比如：stone the crows and pickle the lizards。

天啊 （表达惊讶或仅强调的一般化叹词）

“Why, stone the crows! I′ll look yous up,” sez ′e. / “I need some friends: I ain′t got wife nor chick.”

1924，C. J. Dennis，“Rose Of Spadgers”, in Sentimental Bloke and Other Verses，出版於 1988，頁 86:

The he pinched himself to make sure he was really awake, "Stone the crows!" he said softly. "Stone the crows!"

1971，Richard Carpenter，Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac，Harmondsworth: Puffin Books，頁 141:

So I says to meself: stone the crows, I′m a doomed man, might as well shoot through. It was cyclone time, see, and there′s been flash floods and this rock as big as a house has gone.

1988，Janette Turner Hospital，Charades，頁 63:

‘Stone the crows,’ I whispered in sheer relief.

2008，Norman Jorgensen，Jack′s Island，ReadHowYouWant, 出版於 2011，頁 170:


weaselly

more weaselly (comparative)
weasellier (comparative)
most weaselly (superlative)
weaselliest (superlative)

The writer had just entered into his eighteenth year, when he met at the table of a certain Anglo-Germanist an individual, apparently somewhat under thirty, of middle stature, a thin and weaselly figure, a sallow complexion, a certain obliquity of vision, and a large pair of spectacles.

1857，George Borrow，The Romany Rye，第2nd版, London: John Murray, 出版於 1858, Volume 2, Appendix, Chapter 11, p. 359:

“Pretty?”
[…] Mr. Prestcott considered. “Fair to middling. Bit weaselly, if you know what I mean. Wouldn’t have been much without makeup. As it was, she managed to look quite attractive.”

1942，Agatha Christie，章號 6, in The Body in the Library，New York: Pocket Books, 出版於 1965，頁 54:

At three minutes past six the door opened to admit the naked, scrawny figure of Tingaling Bell. He had a sharp weasely face and a miserable body on which each bone showed.

1956，Ian Fleming，章號 13, in Diamonds Are Forever，London: Pan Books, 出版於 1958:

On still weasellier, greasier members of the clique.

1996，Will Self，The Sweet Smell of Psychosis，New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN:

I lifted the extension, slowly released the button, easing in mid-ring like the weaselliest weasel.

2009，Sean Beaudoin，Fade to Blue，New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, 出版於 2011, →ISBN:

He looks like a shorter, thinner, weasellier version of Tom Jones, and he sure knows how to work a crowd.

That was when the constantly complaining but unseen dog showed itself, if it was actually a dog. The weaselly little creature crawled out from under the couch—more rodential than canine, Pepe thought.

2015，John Irving，章號 1, in Avenue of Mysteries，Canada: Knopf:

More members arrive. […] Lucifer, small and fat and weasellier (e.g. more like a weasel) than ever, and a few other nonentities whose names Fricka can never remember.

2016，Ian Murray-Watson，A Stitch in Time，Matador, →ISBN，頁 20:

With intellect weaselly, artist has easily earned all his bacon and greens by it,

1864, W. S. Gilbert, “Sixty-Three and Sixty-Four” originally published in Fun, V (2 January 1864), p. 162, later published in Bab Ballads, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970, p. 37,

“Ah was vara weaselly. Ah wasna going home without yon stoof for Captain Harker. Vara coonning ah was.”

1927，John Masefield，The Midnight Folk，London: Heinemann，頁 221:

Menemencioglu could see no good reason why this weasely document should not be interpreted so as to keep Turkey out of a war in which he and the other Turkish leaders were convinced she could do no better than be uselessly crushed […]

1947，William B. King, Frank O’Brien，章號 19, in The Balkans: Frontier of Two Worlds，New York: Knopf，頁 239:

“There’s a poem I like,” Harry said. “By Robert Graves. About cats. Cats, he says, make their point by walking round it. It’s all right for cats. For humans, as you say—weaselly. Why don’t they come out with it?”

1967，Richard Lockridge，章號 2, in With Option to Die，Philadelphia: Lippincott，頁 30:

It was one of the strangest elections I have ever witnessed, even odder than the 1988 presidential race, when two yahoos named George Bush and Michael Dukakis ended what Hunter S. Thompson declared “The Generation of Swine” by conducting the weaselliest, most vacuous, idealess campaign in the nation’s history.

1997年August31日，Jeff Cox，“Legacy of the yahoos”, in Standard-Speaker，Hazleton, Pa.，頁 C1:

Charles Lucas received the most weaselly rejection, the directors hoping they might be able to programme his symphony, but adding that they ‘would by no means wish to prevent his so doing elsewhere’.

2000，Simon McVeigh，“The Society of British Musicians (1834–1865) and the Campaign for Native Talent”, in Music and British Culture 1785–1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich，Oxford University Press, →ISBN，頁 147:

“Rat-faced. Never trust a reporter. They’re weasellier than rodents!”

2004，Jan Carr，The Elf of Union Square，G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN，頁 56:

So gas rustlers are the horse thieves of the 21st century. The weaselliest are the pump-and-run variety. They strike even in broad daylight. They fill ’er up, then skedaddle without paying.

2008年July17日，Mike Strobel，“Like Old West horse thieves: As gas prices rise, fuel rustlers are out there riding the range”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard，頁 5:

There’s a weaselly feel to the plan, a sense that tough decisions were postponed even as President Obama warns about our “perfect storm of financial problems.”

2009年February11日，Maureen Dowd，“Trillion Dollar Baby”, in New York Times:

If the prompting is necessary, email (or text) is arguably the worst, weaselliest possible way to do it.

2017年August23日，Carolyn Hax，“Man and daughter won’t make up”, in Appeal Tribune，卷 136, 期 36:


weasely

weaselier (comparative)
weaseliest (superlative)

"It's just, we decided even the slimiest and weaseliest of friends deserve second chances," said Lily.

2005，Lauren Mechling with Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-grade Social Climber，頁 289:


walk like an Egyptian

有时古埃及画作中有如此姿势的人。

walks like an Egyptian (third-person singular present)
walking like an Egyptian (present participle)
walked like an Egyptian (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-walk like an Egyptian.ogg

像埃及人一样走路 （一边上臂水平，下臂垂直向上，手腕弯曲，手垂直向外，另一边上臂水平，下臂垂直向下，手做同样姿势）

“Get ready for pharaohs, pyramids and walking like an Egyptian.” He held bent arms in front and behind him. A laugh bubbled through the room as Mac walked back to his desk and found his Egypt teaching plan.

2008，Patricia S. Otto，The Gelidus Factor，頁 28:


meet one's maker

多种宗教均认为人死后会到达天堂等可以见到造物主的地方。

meets one's maker (third-person singular present)
meeting one's maker (present participle)
met one's maker (past participle)

On the gallows high he has met his Maker...Your victim waits for you to meet your Maker

1871，Unknown (Execution ballad)，“Execution of Frederick Baker.”, in Curiosities of Street Literature, Comprising "cocks," Or "catch Pennies"，頁 205:

This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

1969年December7日，Monty Python，“Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus，spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):