英语词汇“has left the building”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P11. Elvis has left the building and variants: used to express the finality of a situation when a person has died or made a dramatic or notable exit, or when a thing is definitively and permanently concluded. Similarly (in extended use) —— has left the building: used to indicate that the specified person or thing has departed, is finished, or has ceased to exist.The phrase was commonly used (originally by radio producer Horace Lee Logan in 1956) as a public announcement at the end of Elvis Presley's concerts, to inform the fans that there was no possibility of his performing another encore. In earliest figurative use (quot. 1977) with allusion to Presley's death on 16 August 1977.

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1977 Childress (Texas) Index 27 Oct. 12/3 Sumner..has recorded a single ‘Elvis Has Left The Building’... He still can't believe Presley is dead.

1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Mar. v. 7/3 There will be no Final Four for the team... As they used to say at the Elvis Presley concerts, ‘Elvis has left the building’.

1987 N.Y. Times 28 Oct. a26/1 The Mets are dead. Mookie has left the building.

1998 Village Voice (N.Y.) 6 Jan. 74/4 When the singer emerges from the strings.., you get the eerie feeling that Nat hasn't left the building.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Oct. b1/4 Political correctness has left the building... Television executives have giddily reverted to..sexism and racism.

2005 N.Y. Mag. 7 Mar. 18/1 [He] was suffering from thyroid cancer..—the only question has been when, exactly, Elvis would leave the building.

2005 R. R. Simmons Long Hard Ride 238 Thank you for twenty years of support and friendship. Richard has left the building.

单词	has left the building
释义	> as lemmas —— has left the building P11. Elvis has left the building and variants: used to express the finality of a situation when a person has died or made a dramatic or notable exit, or when a thing is definitively and permanently concluded. Similarly (in extended use) —— has left the building: used to indicate that the specified person or thing has departed, is finished, or has ceased to exist.The phrase was commonly used (originally by radio producer Horace Lee Logan in 1956) as a public announcement at the end of Elvis Presley's concerts, to inform the fans that there was no possibility of his performing another encore. In earliest figurative use (quot. 1977) with allusion to Presley's death on 16 August 1977. ΚΠ 1977 Childress (Texas) Index 27 Oct. 12/3 Sumner..has recorded a single ‘Elvis Has Left The Building’... He still can't believe Presley is dead. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Mar. v. 7/3 There will be no Final Four for the team... As they used to say at the Elvis Presley concerts, ‘Elvis has left the building’. 1987 N.Y. Times 28 Oct. a26/1 The Mets are dead. Mookie has left the building. 1998 Village Voice (N.Y.) 6 Jan. 74/4 When the singer emerges from the strings.., you get the eerie feeling that Nat hasn't left the building. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Oct. b1/4 Political correctness has left the building... Television executives have giddily reverted to..sexism and racism. 2005 N.Y. Mag. 7 Mar. 18/1 [He] was suffering from thyroid cancer..—the only question has been when, exactly, Elvis would leave the building. 2005 R. R. Simmons Long Hard Ride 238 Thank you for twenty years of support and friendship. Richard has left the building. extracted from leavev.¹ < as lemmas
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