| 单词 | make my day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmake my day (b) make my day (chiefly U.S.): used ironically to encourage or incite a person to an action that will justify violent or severe retribution on the part of the speaker (this being the speaker's favoured course of action); also used attributively.The phrase was popularized as a remark made by the character Dirty Harry in the film Sudden Impact (see quot. 1983). ΚΠ 1983 J. C. Stinson Killing Ground 8 At the Punk's moment of decision, Donnelly cocks his gun. They face off... Donnelly: Go ahead, make my day. The Punk drops his gun. 1984 Washington Post 19 Feb. c8/5 He was going to tell voters Mondale was promising everything to the elderly, minorities, labor, [etc.]... And Mondale said: ‘Go ahead. Make my day.’ 1988 N.Y. Times b13/1 ‘We can't go to the White House and order Congress to “make my day”,’ Mr. Dukakis told a group of Senators. 1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 107/3 He's from the..Clint Eastwood ‘Make My Day’ school and we don't need that in 1991 in the chief of police. < as lemmas |
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