| 单词 | falling weather |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalling weather falling weather n. now chiefly U.S. colloquial and regional weather characterized by (the prospect of) precipitation; wet or damp weather. ΚΠ 1639 J. Taylor Part Summers Trav. 29 Four or five men may walk in the most parts of a breast, dry from the injury of Raine, or any falling Weather. 1733 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 16 Windy & Falling weather. 1780 in Coll. New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. (1889) IX. 176 Cloudy but no falling weather. 1808 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 15 Feb. Scarce any business was done this forenoon, owing to the falling weather. 1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xxv. 172 It looks like falling weather, and my old drab will come in well to-day. 1899 A. Bubb in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 291/1 [Gloucestershire] There'll be falling-weather before night. 1924 Brandon (Manitoba) Daily Sun 9 July 6/5 It [sc. the cuckoo] is called the ‘raincrow’ because of its supposed instinctive knowledge of approaching storms and falling weather. 1965 J. M. Brewer Worser Days 131 Looks like we might have ‘fallin' weather’ today; it kinda favors snow. 1999 A. Sinclair I left my Back Door Open ix. 91 ‘We got some falling weather out there,’ I said against the backdrop of thunder. ‘It's really coming down now.’ < as lemmas |
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