| 释义 |
shoot-from-the-hip, a.
Brit. |ˌʃuːtfrəmðəˈhɪp|, U.S. |ˈˌʃutfrəmðəˈhɪp|
[‹ to shoot from the hip at shoot v. Additions]
Impulsive, intuitive; hasty; frank; unplanned, spontaneous. Cf. to shoot from the hip at shoot v. Additions
1967Ethics 77 292 These new Democrats..owed their election both to Johnson's image as a man who can get things done and to Goldwater's trigger-happy shoot-from-the-hip image. 1975Business Week (Nexis) 17 Feb. (Managem. section) 40 Some observers think the claim is a shoot-from-the-hip guess. 1990Internat. Business Week 2 Apr. 37/1 He spent hours in back-room sessions with..the shoot-from-the-hip chairman of the House telecommunications and finance subcommittee. 1997J. Ryan Dismantling Mr Doyle ii. 38 Eve liked Star's shoot-from-the-hip approach but felt outpaced. |