| 单词 | spot the difference |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspot the difference P2. spot the difference: (the name of) a type of puzzle, the object of which is to identify a specified number of differences between two almost identical images (chiefly attributive); also used allusively and humorously to imply that two ostensibly different people or things are actually virtually interchangeable. ΚΠ 1968 Photogr. Jrnl. Apr. 102/1 We have found that most people who attempt ‘spot the difference’ competitions under laboratory conditions do this. 1988 Circa No. 40. 43/3 These drawings have to be looked at closely, like spot-the-difference puzzles. 1999 Elephant & Castle (Coventry Univ. Students' Union) Oct. 13/3 Boyzone, Westlife—spot the difference, no I couldn't either. Another boy band ballad, easy listening. 2003 Church Times 10 Oct. 28/2 One became an atheist, another a non-realist theist (spot the difference). 2015 L. Stein tr. M. Houellebecq Submission 184 The two young Arab girls were hunched over the copy of Picsou, playing ‘Spot the Difference’. < as lemmas |
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