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单词 schoolboy howler
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schoolboy howler
schoolboy howler n. a glaring or amusing mistake made by a schoolchild, esp. in answer to an examination question (cf. howler n. 3); (in extended use) any very basic or foolish error; = schoolboy error n.
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1886 Englische Studien 9 327 Some time-honoured schoolboy ‘howlers’ from Latin.
1923 N.Y. Times 14 Oct. viii. 6/1 It..abounds in schoolboy ‘howlers’ in harmony, in four-part writing.
1971 Canad. Math. Bull. Dec. 609 One recalls the school-boy howler which defines English idiom as the language of English idiots.
2005 Times 22 Mar. 78/1 A weekend of schoolboy howlers perpetrated by the most expensive, and lavishly rewarded, No.1s [i.e. goalkeepers] in the world.
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