| 单词 | little helper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslittle helper little helper n. slang any of several mood-altering or performance-enhancing drugs; cf. mother's little helper n. at mother n.1 Compounds 5b. ΚΠ 1964 M. Braly Shake him till he Rattles (new ed.) vii. 64 Some nutty little helpers. Redbirds. 1969 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 16 Feb. 30/3 Dr. Louria mentions the pill-centred life of many adults. This rationale is often used by hippies who sneer at their parents' dependence on sleeping pills, diet pills and dozens of other little helpers. 1974 ‘J. Jacks’ Find Don's Daughter iv. 39 ‘It rots your liver.’ ‘So does speed. Drummer's little helper.’ 1991 Y. Lavigne Good Guy, Bad Guy xiii. 360 Crank becomes boopsie's little helper. 2002 Independent 27 Feb. ii. 1/4 More than 20,000 children in Britain are thought to use the behaviour-altering drug Ritalin, to calm hyperactivity, and one set of figures published last year suggested that by 2007 one child in seven might be taking such ‘little helpers’. < as lemmas |
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