释义 |
go-easy, a. [f. the vbl. phr. to go easy: see go v. 2 b and easy adv. 4 a.] Easy-going; characterized by leisurely behaviour.
1877Rep. Vermont Dairym. Assoc. VIII. 22 The many serious drawbacks which the ‘go easy’ dairymen of Vermont are compelled to encounter. 1936R. C. K. Ensor England 1870–1914 i. 12 The purchase system kept officering as an occupation for gentlemen, and not a trade for professional men. If it became the latter, it might menace our go-easy oligarchic liberties. 1940S. O'Casey Star turns Red i. 8 The workers..with their lightning strikes, stay-in strikes, stay-out strikes, sit-down strikes, and go-easy strikes. |