| 释义 |
higher-up orig. U.S.
[high a. 5.]
One occupying a superior position or post.
1911McClure's Mag. Aug. 351 Resolved to get those dynamiters and to get the ‘higher-ups’, if there were any behind them. 1916C. Sandburg Chicago Poems 61 Higher-ups among the con men of Jerusalem. 1929Literary Digest 12 Oct. 7/1 He is..insists the New York Telegram—‘only the henchman of higher-ups’. 1931L. Steffens Autobiogr. II. x. 254 Other ‘higher-ups’ confessed. 1939‘G. Orwell’ Coming Up for Air ii. viii. 145 The mysterious higher-ups who were running the war. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned v. 47 She's in with all the higher-ups. 1960H. L. Lawrence Children of Light iv. 63 Tell them the War Office is scared of a scandal and that the—er—higher-ups are willing to help them. 1970K. Giles Death in Church ii. 38 The higher-ups were all chartered accountants from Krupps who did not like waste. |