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单词 look , no hands
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look (ma, mom, etc.), no hands
(m) (originally North American) look (ma, mom, etc.), no hands: (a) used as a boastful cry (originally and typically by a child to a parent or other adult) seeking attention or admiration for performing a difficult or complicated activity (often cycling) hands-free; (b) attributive designating something showy or ostentatious.In quot. 1937 shouted by a little girl as she slides down a banister.
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1937 E. Bushmiller Fritzi Ritz in Berkeley (Calif.) Daily Gaz. 7 Apr. 17/1 (cartoon caption) Yippee! Look Aunt Fritzi—no hands!!
1942 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 6 Oct. 12/2 As he blithely rode by the house with both hands above his head he proudly yelled to his dear mother at the window: ‘Look, ma, no hands.’
1949 Life 20 June 34/1 The most buoyant of the second-generation Roosevelts happily floated with a ‘look, no hands’ gesture in Dead Sea.
1962 Mass. Audubon 47 40/1 If I could be a bird, I'd be a chimney swift, they have..so much fun... A sort of ‘look Ma no hands’ bravura.
2002 Time 7 Oct. 107/2 (advt.) In the car headsets that can survive the rigors of everyday life... All so you can brag, ‘Look Mom, no hands!’ as you drive and talk on your phone.
2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. (‘The Ticket’ Suppl.) 15 This is a look ma, no hands collection: improvisational in tone and experimental in mood.
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