| 单词 | sorry-go-round |
| 释义 | > as lemmassorry-go-round sorry-go-round n. [alteration of merry-go-round n., with substitution of sorry adj. for the first element; compare earlier merry-go-sorry n.] a repetitive cycle of depressing events; a vicious circle.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances cloudc1430 palla1450 melancholya1475 downdraughta1681 Job's comforter1738 damper1748 killjoy1776 wet blanket1810 down-drag1814 chill1821 dismals1829 shadow1855 down1856 a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857 wet blanket1857 depressor1868 dampener1887 sorry-go-round1898 wet smack1927 bringdown1935 droopy drawers1939 big chill1943 party pooper1947 misery1951 party poop1951 grinch1966 downer1969 1898 Manch. Guardian 3 Feb. 5/4 Self-proclaimed politicians, circumambulating the country in rather a sorry-go-round than a merry-go-round fashion. 1900 N. A. Smith Message of Froebel 7 He complains..that it makes existence a perpetual sorry-go-round of self-sacrifice. 1964 Punch 29 Apr. 630/1 It was time to stop the ‘sorry-go-round’ of inflation. 2007 E. Neiva Communication Games vii. 229 This is precisely the conception of knowledge that carries conventionalist semiotics into a tautological sorry-go-round. < as lemmas |
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