| 单词 | easy meat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseasy meat a. Of persons and their dispositions: Moved without difficulty to action or belief; soon yielding, compliant; credulous. lady of easy virtue (see lady n. Phrases 3b). easy game, easy mark, easy meat: see sense A. 13b. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [adjective] > complying or conceding accordantc1350 obeisantc1390 comingc1576 easya1616 concessive1632 compliable1641 concessory1641 compliant1642 condescentious1651 conceding1656 complying1668 favourable1734 concessional1765 a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 47 Not a whit, Your Lady being so easy . View more context for this quotation 1668 J. Denham Poems 158 An easie Ear deceives, and is deceiv'd. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iii. i. 23 An easie King deserves no better Fate. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 242 With such Deceits he gain'd their easie Hearts. 1752 E. Young Brothers iii. i To which his easy nature, soon appeas'd, Invited me. 1812 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) II. v. i. 9 The great city..seemed like some fair lady of easy virtue, to lay open to attack, and ready to yield to the first invader. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 258 Juries were no longer so easy of belief. easy meat b. easy meat (colloquial): someone or something overcome, mastered, or persuaded without difficulty; anything compassed with ease. Similarly easy game, easy mark. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy > person or thing easily overcome or dealt with easy game1896 soft touch1924 set-up1926 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe foola1382 woodcockc1430 geckc1530 cousinc1555 cokes1567 milch cow1582 gudgeon1584 coney1591 martin1591 gull1594 plover1599 rook1600 gull-finch1604 cheatee1615 goata1616 whirligig1624 chouse1649 coll1657 cully1664 bubble1668 lamb1668 Simple Simon?1673 mouth1680 dupe1681 cull1698 bub1699 game1699 muggins1705 colour1707 milk cow1727 flat1762 gulpin1802 slob1810 gaggee1819 sucker1838 hoaxee1840 softie1850 foozle1860 lemon1863 juggins1882 yob1886 patsy1889 yapc1894 fall guy1895 fruit1895 meemaw1895 easy mark1896 lobster1896 mark1896 wise guy1896 come-on1897 pushover1907 John1908 schnookle1908 Gretchen1913 jug1914 schnook1920 soft touch1924 prospect1931 steamer1932 punter1934 dill1941 Joe Soap1943 possum1945 Moreton Bay1953 easy touch1959 1896 W. C. Gore in Inlander Jan. 147 Easy mark, an easy prey to a joke. 1896 W. C. Gore in Inlander Jan. 147 Easy meat, one easily duped. 1899 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Dec. 49/1 So I disguised myself and came back and studied you. You were easy game. 1910 P. G. Wodehouse Gentleman of Leisure i. 5 If a man's fool enough to be an easy mark ——. 1927 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 Dec. (1938) 557 That..made him easy meat for all the politicians. 1928 in C. F. S. Gamble North Sea Air Station (1928) ix. 143 Had the Zeppelin been picked up by a searchlight, it would..have been easy meat. a1935 T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) i. xix. 66 The driver is an old sweat, not a rookie's easy meat. 1935 Evening News 29 June 3/1 An immense number of names has been invented for the victims [of confidence men]—..suckers, easy marks, wise guys, come-ons. 1943 Archit. Rev. 93 23 All are easy meat, because a civilization is disintegrating and has lost its standards. 1944 W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 4) 92 He had a gentle nature, ever out to please. He was the type that is known both to white and black as ‘an easy mark’. 1955 Sci. News Let. 28 May 342/1 American pipelines are easy game for an enemy. 1958 Times 29 Oct. 3/2 The play was chosen, no doubt, on the principle that comedy is easy meat for the inexperienced. 1967 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1105/1 Easy mark, a girl easy to persuade into sexual intercourse: since ca. 1920. < as lemmas |
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