| 单词 | grasshopper year |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrasshopper year grasshopper year n. North American (now chiefly historical) a year in which all or most of the crops are destroyed by grasshoppers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > harvest > bad harvest/crop failure grasshopper year1840 1840 New Eng. Farmer 26 Aug. 60/1 By the way, 'tis just fourteen years since the last great ‘grasshopper year’. 1880 Scribner's Monthly July 458/1 Then came 1875 and 1876, which were ‘grasshopper years’ when no crops of consequence were raised in the whole state. 1955 R. Kroetsch in Maclean's 30 Apr. 49/1 We might flood out or dry out or freeze out. How do I know?.. What if it's a grasshopper year? 2016 E. Vetsch His Prairie Sweetheart iv. 63 Here's the farm. Pa homesteaded it right after the war. He held on through the grasshopper years, and now it's doing pretty well. < as lemmas |
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