| 释义 |
dust-up colloq.|ˈdʌstʌp|
[f. dust n.1 + up adv.1]
A quarrel, fight, disturbance; = dust n.1 5 b.
1897Daily News 6 Mar. 7/3 They turned at the Lasher, and after a dust-up for about a minute in Iffley Reach did a nice piece of paddling back to the raft. 1897S. L. Hinde Fall Congo Arabs 152 An American nigger said..they ain't had such a dust-up in this hole since creation. 1926D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness i. 31 [He] had thought Wednesday evening's dust-up none of his business. 1930H. Tomlinson All our Yesterdays v. i. 391 Some fellows always thought they'd pulled it off..if they got out of a dust-up on the cheap. 1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral v. 123 He had a bit of a dust up with one of his girl friends. |