| 单词 | nobody home |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnobody home P4. colloquial (originally U.S.). nobody home: there is an absence of intelligence and sense (referring to a dull, stupid, or mentally incompetent person). Now usually in the lights are on but there's nobody home and variants. ΚΠ 1914 T. A. Dorgan in N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 11 Mar. 14 (cartoon) No he has no sense—nobody home nobody home. 1964 T. McGrath Crash Rep. in New & Sel. Poems II. 51 In five years the flesh fails; five years and then You can knock at his memory: nobody home. 1991 G. Burn Alma Cogan (1992) iii. 33 My mother..is still implacably with us, by the way, minus some of her marbles; the lights are on, as they say, but there's nobody home. 1999 M. Foley Mankind, have Nice Day! xxxvi. 481 It was still readily apparent that while the lights might have been on, there was nobody home. < as lemmas |
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