单词 | shoot-from-the-hip |
释义 | shoot-from-the-hipadj. Impulsive, intuitive; hasty; frank; unplanned, spontaneous. Cf. to shoot from the hip at shoot v. Additions. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [adjective] > operating independently or spontaneously unprovoked1585 automatical1586 automatic1599 self-acting1605 self-active1642 self-acted1651 spontaneous1664 authentic1834 semi-automatic1890 shoot-from-the-hip1967 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [adjective] belly-sprung1607 intuitive1645 intuitional1860 pre-rational1875 pre-reflective1902 telepathic1902 pre-reflexive1955 shoot-from-the-hip1967 1967 Ethics 77 292 These new Democrats..owed their election both to Johnson's image as a man who can get things done and to Goldwater's trigger-happy shoot-from-the-hip image. 1975 Business Week (Nexis) 17 Feb. (Managem. section) 40 Some observers think the claim is a shoot-from-the-hip guess. 1990 Internat. Business Week 2 Apr. 37/1 He spent hours in back-room sessions with..the shoot-from-the-hip chairman of the House telecommunications and finance subcommittee. 1997 J. Ryan Dismantling Mr Doyle ii. 38 Eve liked Star's shoot-from-the-hip approach but felt outpaced. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1967 |
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