| 单词 | day off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasday off day off n. a day away from work, school, service, etc.; a day of rest or holiday. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > day or night holidaya1400 play-day1558 playing day1575 non Le1636 whole holiday1753 rest day1800 Sunday out1837 day off1853 evening out1870 stop-day1879 night off1885 night out1890 off1926 1853 Observer 4 Dec. 5/5 Johnstone, the foreman engineer, said to me the morning of the accident, ‘You have not had a day off with this engine lately’. 1859 London Express 8 Jan. 1/6 Drabble answered that it was his day off, but that he would find a cab for him. 1893 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 10 488/2 The bus-driver spends his ‘day off’ in driving on a pal's bus, on the box-seat by his pal's side. 1904 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Dec. 10/1 Whatever 'e's done, let us remember that 'e's given us a day off. 1971 Daily Tel. 1 July 1 (heading) Teachers' strike gives 400,000 pupils day off. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Mar. (Styles section) 1/1 I took a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off. < as lemmas |
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