| 单词 | a round peg in a round hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa round peg in a round hole b. a square peg in a round hole and variants: a person in a situation unsuited to his or her abilities or disposition; a misfit; (also) something in an inappropriate place or context. Also a round peg in a square hole. Similarly a round peg in a round hole, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > instance of > that which is out of place > person(s) horse-marine1823 a square peg in a round hole1836 misfit1860 odd-come-short1873 1836 A. W. Fonblanque in Examiner 6 Nov. 705/2 Sir Robert Peel was a smooth round peg, in a sharp-cornered square hole, and Lord Lyndhurst is a rectangular square-cut peg, in a smooth round hole. 1859 Times 18 Aug. 9/4 The placing of me in that particular office would have been really putting a square peg in a square hole. 1866 Times 5 July 8/4 It seems possible that in his place at the Poor Law Board a round peg has for once been fitted into a round hole. 1910 H. H. Richardson Getting of Wisdom xxv. 270 She went out from school with the uncomfortable sense of being a square peg, which fitted into none of the round holes of her world. 1988 P. Carey Oscar & Lucinda xxiii. 91 I have produced a proud square peg in the full knowledge that..there are nothing but round holes. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 27 Jan. 21 Here characterisation was achieved with a flourish, as was the technically accomplished job of slotting the round peg of painting into the square hole of television. < as lemmas |
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