| 单词 | man-bites-dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman-bites-dog man-bites-dog adj. [see quot. 1918] originally and chiefly U.S. (of a news story or event) arousing interest because of its bizarre or unexpected nature. ΚΠ 1918 F. M. O'Brien Story of Sun x. 241 John Bogart, a city editor of the Sun..once said to a young reporter: ‘When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.’ 1933 Time 8 May 52/3 Man Bites Dog..is an inferior newspaper play.] 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 22 Sept. 12/1 He was expelled, so the news accounts say, from a UAW local in 1938. Since then, he claims, the company has transferred, fired, rehired and refired him... That may seem to some to have a distinct man-bites-dog flavor. 1974 S. Marcus Minding Store iv. 74 We provoked a tremendous amount of talk... We had created a ‘man bites dog’ story overnight. 1987 New Eng. Monthly June 10/2 To any one who..heeded..the defense case.., any other result would have been man-bites-dog. < as lemmas |
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