单词 | all dressed up with nowhere to go |
释义 | > as lemmasall dressed up with nowhere to go b. In passive. all dressed up with nowhere to go and variants: specially or elaborately dressed for an occasion that fails to take place; (figurative) highly prepared for something that ultimately fails to happen; overly or unnecessarily prepared. ΚΠ 1911 Variety 26 Aug. 14/1 During the performance, Miss Allen employed for laughs, ‘You can't insult me, I have been insulted by experts,’ and ‘All dressed up with no place to go’. 1911 San Francisco Chron. Sunday Mag. 12 Nov. 21/1 ‘Here I am, all dressed up, and nowhere to go,’ murmured Florence Holbrook with an uneasy glance at her sealskins. 1941 Afro-Amer. 1 Mar. 23/4 Speaker for the occasion was the Rev. M. L. King, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, who said ‘Atlantans are all dressed up with no place to go’. 1968 Irish Times 27 Nov. 10/2 This image of the new graduate as being somebody ‘all dressed up with nowhere to go’ is undoubtedly one that many undergraduates have not considered. 1999 R. T. Davies Queer as Folk: Scripts Episode 5. 130 (stage direct.) Marie's kitchen, in an ordinary Barratt-home type house. Marie's all dressed up with nowhere to go. 2010 Australian (Nexis) 2 Feb. (Features section) 12 If the ETS [sc. emissions trading scheme] legislation is defeated again, which seems certain, we will have an environmental tax department all dressed up but with nowhere to go. < as lemmas |
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