| 单词 | johnny head-in-the-air |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJohnny Head-in-the-Air Johnny Head-in-the-Air n. (also Johnny-Head-in-Air) (a nickname for) a person (esp. a man) who is dreamy, absent-minded, or unworldly; cf. head-in-air adj. 1. [Apparently after German Hans-guck-in-die-Luft (1857 or earlier in Struwwelpeter), perhaps itself after Hans-guck-in-die-Welt (18th cent. or earlier), the name later given to the adventurous hero of a 16th-cent. romance.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > one who daydreams musardc1330 John-a-dreams1603 air-monger1628 castle-builder1711 daydreamer1750 castle-hunter1752 Alnaschar1800 reverist1824 stargazer1843 Johnny Head-in-the-Air?1851 pipe-dreamer1899 head-in-air1932 Walter Mitty1947 Mitty1953 ?1851 tr. H. Hoffmann Eng. Struwwelpeter (ed. 4) 21 (title) The story of Johnny Head-in-Air. 1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem i. 14 What happier place For Johnny Head-in-Air, Who never would hear Time mumbling at the base? 1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties xvi. 225 Yet he was not a Johnny-Head-in-the-Air; he had a shrewd grasp of the contemporary scene. 2017 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Nov. Oh, very clever. But they are all Johnny Head-in-The-Airs. < as lemmas |
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