单词 | pipe course |
释义 | > as lemmaspipe course pipe course n. College slang an easy course; cf. sense 25b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy > easy way or method primrose path1604 primrose waya1616 line of least resistance1746 plain sailing1756 royal road1793 plane sailing1850 pipe course1923 1923 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 27 Oct. 6/8 To keep the standard of work high and so eliminate any idea that ‘Home Ec’ is a ‘pipe course’. 1951 M. Shulman Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1953) 105 A pipe course is a course where students can get passing grades without doing much work. This is not a pipe course. 2000 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 12 Jan. a2 The cry came from the back, from a guy who'd meant to enroll in a pipe course but found himself bitten forever by the journalism bug. < as lemmas |
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