| 单词 | on the —— kick |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the —— kick e. An interest or enthusiasm, esp. one that is temporary; a fashion, fad (cf. sense 4); a subject, line of thought, or manner of behaving; = bag n. 1c; esp. in on the —— kick = doing, or enthusiastic about, the thing specified by the prefixed word or words. Originally U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion > fashionable thing or craze new fangle1548 furor1704 fever1761 rage1780 go1784 the fashion1790 furore1790 fashionablea1800 craze1813 delirament1856 fad1881 fash1895 new thinga1911 flu1943 kick1946 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §233/2 The fashion; rage,..the kick.] 1946 Jazz Record July 8 The whole jazz world was on a Hawkins kick. 1955 M. McCarthy Charmed Life ii. 34 He had been..a magazine editor. He was on that kick, as he called it, when he met Martha. 1955 B. Bailey in N. Shapiro & N. Hentoff Hear me talkin' to Ya xviii. 298 When I was starting up, they used to say the two races couldn't get along playing. They used to say stuff like they were afraid we'd go after their women. All that's been proved false, and everything else on that prejudice kick has been proved false. 1957 M. Millar Soft Talkers ii. 20 ‘He's rather sensitive about being caught by the cops in bed with another man's wife.’ ‘For Pete's sake, Esther, get off that kick, will you?’ 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 88 Mannie wasn't in on the Angries kick. 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 93 They didn't like it when little Emmanuel got on the writing kick? 1963 B. S. Johnson Travelling People iv. 66 The star of the production is Maurice Bunde,..fifty-ish but on a tremendous Back-to-Youth kick. 1970 Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 8/3 We must get off this kick that every job is a career—it isn't. 1971 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Nov. 1409/1 Somewhere behind the cumulative high, the peace-kick, the good vibes, efficient entrepreneurs..were smiling their mean smiles all the way to the bank. < as lemmas |
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