| 单词 | big talker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig talker big talker n. (a) a person who speaks boastfully or extravagantly, a person who ‘talks big’; (b) a person who is much given to talking, a great conversationalist. ΚΠ 1775 Gen. Election: Lett. between Friends I. xxiii. 235 These big talkers, as my brother observes, are generally the least doers. 1805 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Oct. 585 These boastings never lead to good..; should the enemy at last land on our shores, these big talkers will be ‘blanched with fear’. 1898 J. H. Ramsay Found. Eng. II. xxv. 400 Earl Robert..was a man of words, a big talker. 1995 C. B. Divakaruni Arranged Marriage (1997) 237 Srikant wasn't a big talker..he'd sit back and listen to Meena and Ashok laughing at each other's wickedly witty jokes. 2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 16 Sept. a9/2 Messrs. Bush, Gingrich and other big talkers fail to appreciate that the other side is willing to sacrifice everything. < as lemmas |
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