| 单词 | one's dish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's dish c. Slang phrase one's dish: something exactly suited to one's tastes, requirements, abilities, etc.; one's ‘cup of tea’. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste > that which is to one's taste mark1760 style1811 one's dish1918 1918 H. C. Witwer From Baseball to Boches 106 They [sc. grenades] ought to of been my dish, seein' what a notorious pitcher I was. 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) v. 114 Did you lose your nerve And cloud your conscience because I wasn't Your dish really? 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Feb. 42/2 Thus they are armed to predict the future, but this, I fear, is not my dish. 1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy iii. 42 My output was not everybody's dish. < as lemmas |
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