| 单词 | nose-to-tail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnose-to-tail d. nose to tail: one behind another and very close together, now esp. of motor vehicles in heavy traffic; so nose-to-tail adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adjective] > density of traffic nose to taila1834 light1848 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adverb] > density of traffic nose to taila1834 bumper-to-bumper1901 a1834 S. T. Coleridge Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) II. 986 Nose to tail, with this gipsy Comes, black as a porpus, The diabolus ipse. 1842 Southern Lit. Messenger Oct. 660/1 Imagine a pointer circling in search of the hole of a ground-squirrel, with a young one following, nose to tail. 1891 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 500/2 We passed..water-wheel boats anchored in the current, nose to tail, in a long line. a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) ix. 59 A procession of lorries, nose to tail,..were tearing down the road. 1960 Guardian 7 June 6/1 The accustomed queues of nose-to-tail traffic on main roads. 1974 ‘C. Fremlin’ By Horror Haunted 48 The nose-to-tail crawl along the motorway. 1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xv. 164 To avoid churning up fields..tank squadrons sat nose to tail, seldom allowed off the road. < as lemmas |
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