| 单词 | on the lam |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the lam Escape, flight. Esp. in on the lam, on the run; take it on the (or a) lam (see quot. 1935). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] scapea1300 escapec1300 escapingc1325 scapingc1374 evasiona1464 escapal1634 escapement1824 lam1897 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > flight or running away flemeOE flightc1175 fuge1436 fuite1499 fleec1560 fugacyc1600 tergiversationa1652 runaway1720 run1799 fugitation1823 skedaddling1863 skedaddle1870 lam1897 run-out1928 1897 Appleton's Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 832 To do a lam, meaning to run. 1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing xiii. 263 He plugged the main guy for keeps and I took it on a lam for mine. 1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) iii. 56 Then Louie gets the back door open and takes it on the lam through an areaway. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 118/2 Take it on the lam, to run away; escape. 1953 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row xiii. 94 The dolly was on the lam. 1959 John o' London's Weekly 10 Dec. 322/3 A young man stops the car, points a gun at them, and orders them to drive him to the border. He is a juvenile delinquent, ‘on the lam’ after a robbery. 1968 Washington Post 5 July A20/1 What useful public purpose is served by making it easy for convicts on the lam from a state penitentiary to acquire an arsenal? 1972 G. Baxt Burning Sappho ix. 158 Were you stalling for time while your Brunhilde takes it on the lam? < as lemmas |
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