| 单词 | big dry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig dry e. colloquial (chiefly Australian). Designating a particularly severe or prolonged spell of, or a season characterized by, a specified type of weather, as big dry, big rain, big wet, etc. (cf. dry n. 1a, wet n.1 2d). ΚΠ 1890 A. Martin Home Life Ostrich Farm v. 94 It..gave me the first experience of a big rain—and of a brack roof. 1903 Bull. (Sydney) 3 Jan. 16/2 A big rain is magnified under glaring head-lines in the daily press. 1927 M. Dorney Adventurous Honeymoon 95 We would never have got through before the ‘big wet’. 1942 L. Harris & K. Harris Lost Hole Bingoola 51 The long rainless season which the natives called the ‘big dry’ had begun. 1944 J. Devanny By Tropic Sea & Jungle 3 That's the big blow season. 2003 Westside News (Brisbane) 22 Jan. 5/1 Castlemaine Perkins has had to import barley and malt from Western Australia as a result of Queensland's big dry. < as lemmas |
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