英语词汇“on the way out”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(2) colloquial (originally U.S.). on the (also one's) way out: Going down in status, position, estimation, or favour; spec. close to death, about to die.

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1937 Time 25 Jan. 12/3 Every time one of them has called on the President and emerged smiling, rumor has whispered throughout Washington that the other was ‘on his way out’.

1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. i. 27 The Scottish king could well afford to make the concession: she was on her way out, he was on his way in.

1962 in R. Jarrell Sad Heart at Supermarket 92 Poetry is on the way out!

1969 R. A. Campbell tr. Seneca Lett. from Stoic xii. 57 He looks as if he's on the way out. Where did you get him from? What was the attraction in taking over someone else's dead for burial?

1978 E. M. Chamberlain Gates of Fire vii. 140 Once mine [sc. a parachute] opened only partially and then gave out at eighteen hundred feet. ‘At last,’ I thought, ‘I'm on my way out.’

1998 R. Price Freedomland ii. ix. 159 The guy looked dope-sick—swollen hands, cloudy-eyed, on his way out.

2011 New Yorker 18 Apr. 94/3 The Relationship Status menu, among whose options is the phrase ‘It's complicated’. This may be a euphemism for ‘on my way out’.

单词	on the way out
释义	> as lemmas on the (also one's) way out (2) colloquial (originally U.S.). on the (also one's) way out: Going down in status, position, estimation, or favour; spec. close to death, about to die. ΚΠ 1937 Time 25 Jan. 12/3 Every time one of them has called on the President and emerged smiling, rumor has whispered throughout Washington that the other was ‘on his way out’. 1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. i. 27 The Scottish king could well afford to make the concession: she was on her way out, he was on his way in. 1962 in R. Jarrell Sad Heart at Supermarket 92 Poetry is on the way out! 1969 R. A. Campbell tr. Seneca Lett. from Stoic xii. 57 He looks as if he's on the way out. Where did you get him from? What was the attraction in taking over someone else's dead for burial? 1978 E. M. Chamberlain Gates of Fire vii. 140 Once mine [sc. a parachute] opened only partially and then gave out at eighteen hundred feet. ‘At last,’ I thought, ‘I'm on my way out.’ 1998 R. Price Freedomland ii. ix. 159 The guy looked dope-sick—swollen hands, cloudy-eyed, on his way out. 2011 New Yorker 18 Apr. 94/3 The Relationship Status menu, among whose options is the phrase ‘It's complicated’. This may be a euphemism for ‘on my way out’. extracted from wayn.¹int.¹ < as lemmas
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