| 单词 | parade-ground bearing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparade-ground bearing General attributive, as parade-ground bearing, parade ground gate, parade ground major, parade ground manner, parade ground voice, etc. ΚΠ 1892 Harper's Mag. Dec. 137 Both dismounted at the parade-ground gate. 1918 Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 20 Dec. 245/1 He..[has] a particularly keen ‘derry’ on the parade-ground N.C.O. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 693/4 The preposterous chief constable is of no use at all, and his parade-ground manners make a suitable contrast to Colonel Gethryn's cool and gentlemanly efficiency. 1937 J. R. Firth Tongues of Men 41 There is a well-known Prussian parade-ground type of voice. 1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) ii. 28 He expected the boys to have a parade-ground bearing. a1963 S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 23 Pawing like paradeground horses. 1976 R. Condon Whisper of Axe i. xxi. 130 A spit-and-polish, parade-ground major. 1991 A. Kemp SAS at War (BNC) 11 Bennett..had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards. 2000 A. Ghosh Glass Palace (2001) xxi. 263 At the end of it, I barked at him, in my best parade-ground voice: ‘Kishan Sing! What do you think of this kahani?’ < as lemmas |
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