释义 |
bust-up|ˈbʌstʌp| [See bust n.3] = burst-up (see burst n. 2 b): an explosion (lit. and fig.); a flare-up, an altercation; excitement.
1846Knickerbocker XXVIII. 313 The houdaciousest bust-up I ever seed. 1899Kipling Stalky 133 Then there's a big bust-up and a row that gets into the papers. 1908W. de Morgan Somehow Good xi, There are hundreds of English equivalents for éclaircissement. There's bust-up. 1914English Rev. Sept. 250 It [sc. this war] is the ‘bust-up’ of materialism. 1945A. L. Rowse West-Country Stories 148 They were having a tremendous bust-up with the railway porters about their belongings. |