| 单词 | paper trail |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspaper trail paper trail n. (a) a trail marked with paper, esp. one followed by runners in a paperchase; (b) originally and chiefly U.S. a series of documents giving evidence on, information about, or verification regarding a particular issue, person, or thing. ΚΠ 1868 T. Hood Lost Link I. v. 73 It's just ‘hare and hounds’, all the world over. Your hare takes big jumps.., but he drops a paper trail wherever he goes, and you're sure to get up with him at last. 1935 S. Chase Govt. in Business 61 Always at the end of the checks and double checks of the paper trail, was a man. 1975 N.Y. Times 11 June 42 By August, 1973, when C.I.A. Director Colby virtually halted this project ‘the paper trail left by Operation CHAOS included somewhere in the area of 13,000 files on subjects and individuals.’ 1985 Times 4 Sept. 21/5 The first cross-country clubs..were designated ‘Hare and Hounds’, the hare setting a paper trail for the hounds to follow. 1996 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Apr. b2/6 Two agents with the Internal Revenue Service..pieced together the paper trail from bank statements and canceled checks. < as lemmas |
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