| 单词 | get-up-and-dust |
| 释义 | > as lemmasget-up-and-dust In compounds with and and a verb stem, on the model of get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go (see get-up-and-get n. and adj., get-up-and-go n. and adj.), as get-up-and-dust, get-up-and-hustle, etc. Also used attributively. ΚΠ 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 223 When it comes to the get-up-and-hustle, she's there. 1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xxv. 258 That slim little girl you could break in two over your knee has got more git-up-and-dust than any man I know. 1965–70 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 667/1 Of a very able and energetic person... ‘He's got lots of——’..Get-up-and-dust. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. p. xxxix A get-up-and-do attitude is not always encouraged. 2006 New Yorker 28 Aug. 61/3 Her attitude was..typical of her get-up-and-fix-things positivism. < as lemmas |
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