单词 | push-and-go |
释义 | push-and-gon.adj. Originally U.S. A. n. The ability to develop and carry out a scheme energetically; enterprise, initiative; drive, ambition. Cf. get-up-and-go n.In the United Kingdom chiefly associated with the administration of Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1863–1945). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > energy or enterprise undertakingc1400 enterprisec1450 energy1793 dynamism1831 go-aheadism1838 get-up1841 go-ahead1843 go-aheadness1847 drive1859 get-up-and-get1865 get-up-and-go1871 get-there-ativeness1883 push-and-go1885 hustle1892 go-getting1919 go-gettingness1928 dynamicism1947 go-go-go1954 1871 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 12 Oct. They represent the push and go-ahead of America.] 1885 N.Y. Times 12 Apr. 4/2 Among its contemporaries are the Deutsche Zeitung and Weiner Zeitung, the Presse and the Tagblatt..not one of which has its push and go. 1909 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 24 Sept. 1/3 The Inter-State Fair..calls attention to the push and go of many of the most influential and successful business men of Trenton. 1915 D. Lloyd George in Hansard Commons 9 Mar. 1277 We are on the look out for a good, strong business man with some go in him who will be able to push the thing through and be at the head of a Central Committee.] 1915 Times 10 Mar. 14/5 The Government were on the look-out for a good, strong business man with some push and go in him, who would be able to put the thing through. 1916 Ld. Fisher Let. 26 Jan. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III. Compan. ii. 1398 I said what was required was ‘Push and Go’! (NOT ‘Wait and See’!). 1943 E. Fergusson Chile ix. 107 They have the sturdy virtues, the push and go of pioneer peoples anywhere. 1959 F. M. G. Willson in Polit. Stud. VII. 224 Recruits from business, industry, and trade unions begin with Sir Eric Geddes, one of Lloyd George's men of ‘push and go’..graduating to the Cabinet as the first Minister of Transport in 1919. 1991 Musical Times 132 357/3 The real America that, beneath the brazen push and go, is embryonically waiting to be born. B. adj. 1. Ambitious, enterprising, determined. Now rare.Used punningly in quot. 1916. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > energetic or enterprising adventurousc1330 emprising1584 enterprising1601 spirited1601 yanking1823 go-ahead1829 go-aheadative1836 go-aheadish1851 fore-reaching1864 get-up-and-get1874 rustling1877 outpushing1884 thrustful1909 go-getting1912 push-and-go1916 can-do1926 go-go-go1954 1916 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 20 Feb. 7/1 ‘He's one of these “push and go” boys’... ‘Smart and efficient and all that, eh?’ ‘Not at all... He only goes when you push him’. 1917 Williamsport (Pa.) Gaz. & Bull. 20 Apr. This girl belongs to the ‘push and go’ variety, and is not easily balked in her determination. 1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 80 He is one of the push-and-go type..the flower of the Higher Counter~jumpery. 2. Of a motorized toy car, etc.: having a mechanism that stores the momentum generated by a preliminary push and then releases it to produce forward motion. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [adjective] > of toy cars, etc. push-and-go1958 1958 New Scientist 9 Jan. 15 This novel type of shunting locomotive is a larger-scale version of a child's ‘push-and-go’ toy. 1959 Oxf. Mail 21 Jan. 6/3 The soft plastic trains and cars had their wheels removed very promptly and the push-and-go ‘engines’ soon fall out. 1980 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constit.-Tribune 23 Dec. 9 b/2 For Christmas I would like some push and go trucks and cars, a riding car,..and anything else you think I might need. 2003 Herald Dispatch (Huntington, W. Virginia) (Nexis) 17 July (Local section) 1 c They also made push-and-go toys with clear, two-liter bottles, a rubber band and some weights. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。