英语词汇“dear john message”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

As a modifier, designating a letter, usually from a woman to a man, ending a romantic or sexual relationship, as in Dear John letter. Hence designating other means of ending a relationship, as in Dear John message, Dear John speech, etc.

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1944 Beckley (W. Va.) Post-Herald 28 Apr. 5/1 I continue to hear dreary stories of fickle women who write ‘Dear John’ letters to their sweethearts or husbands in foreign lands.

1964 J. Philips Laughter Trap (1965) i. ii. 13 Peter..had gone to war..in love with a girl named Elizabeth Schofield... He had received a ‘Dear John’ letter from Elizabeth, telling him she was married.

1994 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 Apr. (Late ed.) 17 They seem to have assumed a dead bloke with a ‘dear John’ message from his girl on the answer-phone and a detailed diary about sad feelings must have knocked himself off.

2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty lxxxviii. 317 By this time tomorrow Ginny will be seeing the person formally known as her boyfriend to give him a well-prepared dear John speech.

2014 New Yorker 4 Aug. 38/3 ‘You ever heard of a Dear John letter? I got a Dear John call,’ Hood told me.

单词	dear john message
释义	> as lemmas Dear John message As a modifier, designating a letter, usually from a woman to a man, ending a romantic or sexual relationship, as in Dear John letter. Hence designating other means of ending a relationship, as in Dear John message, Dear John speech, etc. ΚΠ 1944 Beckley (W. Va.) Post-Herald 28 Apr. 5/1 I continue to hear dreary stories of fickle women who write ‘Dear John’ letters to their sweethearts or husbands in foreign lands. 1964 J. Philips Laughter Trap (1965) i. ii. 13 Peter..had gone to war..in love with a girl named Elizabeth Schofield... He had received a ‘Dear John’ letter from Elizabeth, telling him she was married. 1994 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 Apr. (Late ed.) 17 They seem to have assumed a dead bloke with a ‘dear John’ message from his girl on the answer-phone and a detailed diary about sad feelings must have knocked himself off. 2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty lxxxviii. 317 By this time tomorrow Ginny will be seeing the person formally known as her boyfriend to give him a well-prepared dear John speech. 2014 New Yorker 4 Aug. 38/3 ‘You ever heard of a Dear John letter? I got a Dear John call,’ Hood told me. extracted from Dear Johnn. < as lemmas
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