英语词汇“eyeball to eyeball”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P4. eyeball to eyeball: face to face and in close proximity; (later frequently) figurative in extremely close confrontation, esp. in a contest of nerve or an attempt by each party to intimidate the other. Also attributive (usually with hyphens).

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the world > space > relative position > opposite position > [adverb] > facing > face to face

afrontc1380

face-to-facedly1876

eyeball to eyeball1908

the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > in unyielding confrontation

eyeball to eyeball1962

1908 E. Phillpotts in Pall Mall Mag. Oct. 406/2 What maid on earth but you would meet me eyeball to eyeball and never drop her glance?

1951 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 1 Oct. 18/2 You couldn't go one hundred yards in front of our line without running into the enemy. As someone said last spring, we were eyeball to eyeball over there.

1951 Daily Mirror 10 Nov. 1/1 What the troops called an eyeball-to-eyeball battle.

1956 Gastonia (N. Carolina) Gaz. 5 Nov. 4/7 Making eyeball-to-eyeball stares with coeds in tight-fitting sweaters.

1962 Washington Post 3 Dec. a13/4 On Wednesday when the first Soviet ships turned back.., [Dean] Rusk said to Bundy: ‘We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.’

1966 Guardian 16 June 1/3 Mr Wilson said we ought not to ‘contract out and leave it to the Americans and Chinese eyeball to eyeball’.

1970 M. Kelly Spinifex iii. 65 Two extremely ambitious dogs are eyeball to eyeball over the same bone.

1993 Esquire Dec. 54/2 As the nation's first post-cold-war President, he lacked a worthy Russian to go eyeball-to-eyeball with on the world stage.

2010 D. J. Schemo Skies to Conquer iii. 35 The drill sergeant is toughness personified, eternally barking orders eyeball to eyeball with the hapless private.

单词	eyeball to eyeball
释义	> as lemmas eyeball to eyeball P4. eyeball to eyeball: face to face and in close proximity; (later frequently) figurative in extremely close confrontation, esp. in a contest of nerve or an attempt by each party to intimidate the other. Also attributive (usually with hyphens). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > opposite position > [adverb] > facing > face to face afrontc1380 face-to-facedly1876 eyeball to eyeball1908 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > in unyielding confrontation eyeball to eyeball1962 1908 E. Phillpotts in Pall Mall Mag. Oct. 406/2 What maid on earth but you would meet me eyeball to eyeball and never drop her glance? 1951 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 1 Oct. 18/2 You couldn't go one hundred yards in front of our line without running into the enemy. As someone said last spring, we were eyeball to eyeball over there. 1951 Daily Mirror 10 Nov. 1/1 What the troops called an eyeball-to-eyeball battle. 1956 Gastonia (N. Carolina) Gaz. 5 Nov. 4/7 Making eyeball-to-eyeball stares with coeds in tight-fitting sweaters. 1962 Washington Post 3 Dec. a13/4 On Wednesday when the first Soviet ships turned back.., [Dean] Rusk said to Bundy: ‘We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.’ 1966 Guardian 16 June 1/3 Mr Wilson said we ought not to ‘contract out and leave it to the Americans and Chinese eyeball to eyeball’. 1970 M. Kelly Spinifex iii. 65 Two extremely ambitious dogs are eyeball to eyeball over the same bone. 1993 Esquire Dec. 54/2 As the nation's first post-cold-war President, he lacked a worthy Russian to go eyeball-to-eyeball with on the world stage. 2010 D. J. Schemo Skies to Conquer iii. 35 The drill sergeant is toughness personified, eternally barking orders eyeball to eyeball with the hapless private. extracted from eyeballn. < as lemmas
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