| 单词 | rainbow-chaser |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrainbow-chaser rainbow-chaser n. figurative a person who undertakes a rainbow chase. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > a profitless undertaking > one who rainbow-chaser1888 1888 N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 693 The roseate imagination of one of the Democratic managers has supplied our political slang with the suggestive epithet of ‘rainbow chaser’. 1925 D. Senior Rainbow Chasers iii. 33 ‘We are all Rainbow-Chasers in youth,’ I retorted. ‘And even in old age the hope of finding the Crock of Gold is hard to kill.’ 1999 J. Raban Passage to Juneau iii. 118 I was Oedipus, not Telemachus—an escapee, a new-lifer, a rainbow-chaser. < as lemmas |
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