单词 | foggy |
释义 | foggy (fɒgi ) Word forms: foggier , foggiest 1. adjective When it is foggy, there is fog. It's quite foggy now. Conditions were damp and foggy after morning sleet. Synonyms: misty, grey, murky, cloudy 2. not have the foggiest/not have the foggiest idea phrase If you say that you haven't the foggiest or you haven't the foggiest idea, you are emphasizing that you do not know something. [informal, emphasis] I did not have the foggiest idea what he meant. 'How often does it need to be changed?'—'Haven't the foggiest.' Collocations: foggy morning To wake up on a foggy morning is to see a new mysterious world that has a cold, damp and claustrophobic atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times (2011) I'm standing in a car park at the side of the A4 on a damp and foggy morning. Times, Sunday Times (2012) It was certainly a very dark and foggy morning, but still it seemed an unusual course to stop all business on that account. Three Men in a Boat (1889) In the chill, foggy morning the ceremony began. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It was a grey, foggy morning. The Crossing-Place (1993) It was a foggy night and the temperature dropped to minus seven. The Sun People with different perspectives are a lot like two ships passing on a foggy night, moving in different directions, not able to see the other. Christianity Today The inventor's fortunes changed while driving on a foggy night in 1933, when he avoided crashing after his headlights reflected in the eyes of a cat. Times, Sunday Times On a foggy night, as the clocktow-ers strike midnight from above and below, the roofscape becomes a medieval mess of disembodied turrets, and the 21st century disappears. Times, Sunday Times They seem to unfold on a foggy night in an underlit back alley, in the kind of place into which you wouldn't willingly venture. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 多雾的 Japanese: 霧の立ちこめた |
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