| 释义 |
slack-twisted, a.
[f. slack adv.]
Of a rope: Not tightly twisted. Hence fig., of a loose, unsatisfactory character; lazy, inactive.
1794Rigging & Seamanship 56 Slack-laid means slack-twisted. 1802Sporting Mag. XX. 292 The slack-twisted operations of a certain pack of hounds. 1887Proc. Soc. Antiquaries XII. 16 One Dr. Barlow, a notable trimmer even in those slack-twisted times. 1891T. Hardy Tess (1900) 17/2 Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow. |