| 单词 | a bit pregnant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa (little) bit pregnant c. a (little) bit pregnant and variants: only partially committed to something which requires complete commitment; attempting to adopt a moderate position on a policy that one can only be for or against. Frequently in contexts implying the inherent impossibility of such a stance. ΚΠ 1926 Sun Oil Papers 27 May in C. Gordon New Deals (1994) 62 A little federal control is like being a little pregnant.] 1947 Marion (Ohio) Star 12 Nov. 6/6 The national economy can no more stay a little bit price controlled than the lady in the joke could stay a little bit pregnant. 1949 Washington Post 2 Oct. m12/1 [He] goes on to suggest a limited approach to ‘agreement’ to restrict not merely weapons of mass destruction but mass armies, which, vulgarly, sounds to me like an agreement to stay just the latest [sic] little bit pregnant! 1956 Lima (Ohio) News 26 June 20/1 Meany insists that Nehru's ‘neutralism’ favors communism..that you can't be a ‘little bit pregnant’. 1985 Guardian (Nexis) 13 May If they succeed in pursuading the Peacock Committee to recommend commercial advertising for the BBC—even on the ‘only-a-bit pregnant’ basis of limiting ads to two minutes in the hour in peak time on only one television channel—ITV companies will, at worst, go bust. 2004 E. Pond Friendly Fire iii. 72 More than one European regarded this as an attempt to force Germany in particular to become a little bit pregnant. < as lemmas |
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