英语词汇“big stick”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

big stick n. (with the) force as a means of attaining one's goal or desired outcome, esp. military force or aggression in international relations; a display of this.

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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > physical coercion > threat or display of

big stick1897

mailed fist1897

1897 Times 19 Aug. 10/ The tribes are to be conciliated, the big stick is to be laid aside.

1904 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 26 Aug. 1 Happily the revolution in Paraguay is too far down in South America to arouse the ‘big stick’ in Washington.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iii. 65 Elvira's on the side of the big stick in these things.

2004 New Yorker 13 Sept. 65/2 Gore..was tough on deficit spending and ready to use the big stick in Bosnia and Kosovo.

单词	big stick
释义	> as lemmas big stick big stick n. (with the) force as a means of attaining one's goal or desired outcome, esp. military force or aggression in international relations; a display of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > physical coercion > threat or display of big stick1897 mailed fist1897 1897 Times 19 Aug. 10/ The tribes are to be conciliated, the big stick is to be laid aside. 1904 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 26 Aug. 1 Happily the revolution in Paraguay is too far down in South America to arouse the ‘big stick’ in Washington. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iii. 65 Elvira's on the side of the big stick in these things. 2004 New Yorker 13 Sept. 65/2 Gore..was tough on deficit spending and ready to use the big stick in Bosnia and Kosovo. extracted from bigadj.adv. < as lemmas
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