| 单词 | aunt emma |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAunt Emma Aunt Emma n. Croquet (the type of) an unenterprising or excessively defensive player; play regarded as characteristic of such a player; frequently attributive.In quot. 1900 used as the name of the fictitious author of a chapter on such tactics. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > unenterprising play or player Aunt Emma1931 1900 A. Lillie Croquet up to Date Contents p. v Cowardly tactics by Aunt Emma.] 1931 Handbk. Mod. Croquet (Croquet Assoc.) v. 55 It would seem as though the basis of over-caution, a backward-game, refusal to take risks, ‘Aunt Emma’, as this malady is sometimes derisively called, were a subconscious conviction that somehow or other, given sufficient patience and care, there is an absolutely safe way to the winning-peg. 1960 E. P. C. Cotter Tackle Croquet this Way 66 Whatever happens don't become an Aunt Emma player. 1963 Croquet Aug. 3/1 Aunt Emma is banished for ever. 1967 Croquet Aug.–Sept. 13/2 He played too much ‘Aunt Emma’. 2000 Canberra Times (Nexis) 4 Nov. a6 Frequently this is compounded by your opponent causing your balls to be well apart so that a roquet is difficult. This is—not at all affectionately—known as ‘Aunt Emma’ tactics. < as lemmas |
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