| 单词 | in the swim |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (out of) the swim a. figurative. The current of affairs or events, esp. the popular current in business, fashion, or opinion; chiefly in in (out of) the swim. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > course or direction current1607 generalitiesa1628 bent1649 duct1650 turn1690 run1699 movement1789 swim1869 trend1884 1869 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 70/2 A man is said to be ‘in the swim’ when any piece of good fortune has happened, or seems likely to happen, to him..The metaphor is piscatorial. 1874 Siliad ii. 30 ‘He's in the swim’, another swift replies; ‘Hot wather, thin, he loiks’, Obroian cries. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxvi. 264 Palmerston is to all appearance what would be vulgarly called ‘out of the swim’. 1884 Graphic 29 Nov. 562/3 The second category of companies is usually so managed that the originators do pretty well out of it whether those of the shareholders who are not ‘in the swim’ gain a profit or lose their Capital. < as lemmas |
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