| 单词 | stick 'em up! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstick 'em up! b. colloquial (originally U.S.). In the imperative phrase stick 'em up!: a command, typically given by an armed robber or police officer, to put both hands in the air in surrender or to preclude resistance. Cf. hands up int. 2, put 'em up at put v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1903 Defiance (Ohio) Evening Express 1 May ‘Stick 'em up, Bill,’ quietly ordered Harper. ‘Wild Bill's’ hands went up. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock v. iii. 203 The children were scouting among the rubble with pistols from Woolworth's... Someone said in a high treble: ‘Stick 'em up.’ 1960 R. Dahl Kiss Kiss 245 ‘Stick 'em up!’ the cops shouted. ‘Stick 'em up!’ 1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin vi. 76 Sequences of spine-chilling drama, with people telling other people to stick 'em up and prodding them in the stomach with pistols. 2015 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 26 Feb. Commission of crime used to be a uniquely human affair. Someone would hide in a dark alley and yell ‘stick 'em up!’ < as lemmas |
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