| 释义 |
ball-breaker slang (orig. U.S.).
[ball n.1 15 b.]
a. A difficult, boring, or exasperating job, problem, or situation.
b. A person who sets difficult work or problems; a hard taskmaster.
c. A dominating woman, one who destroys the self-confidence of a man.
1954J. A. Weingarten Amer. Dict. Slang 15/1. 1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon iii. 57 The quality control inspector is a sort of nitpicker. We're the ball breakers, in plain English. We're the most unwanted people. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places v. 213 Désirée is a ball-breaker. She eats men like your husband for breakfast. 1975Observer 21 Dec. 21/8 A meticulously groomed, flint-profiled ball breaker with a taste for leopard-skin prints, Margo is the repository of every known prejudice common among the landless landed gentry. 1977I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief i. vii. 94 Tom told me about that wife of his. A real ball-breaker, isn't she? 1985Company Dec. 60/2 They [sc. women] are now reaching senior positions..where their arrival is creating new male horror stories about aggressive ball-breakers.
Hence ball-breaking ppl. a.
1976Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 3 Jan. 2/2 The women's movement is a bunch of ball-breaking bitches. |