| 单词 | talk through the back of one's neck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto talk through (the back of) one's neck P13. colloquial. to talk through (the back of) one's neck and variants: to use extravagant words or language not substantiated by fact; to talk nonsense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)] rabblea1400 javerc1440 jabber1499 jabble1570 jargon1570 gabble1574 gibberish1577 gibber1604 cant1728 jibber1824 rigmarole1831 to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899 garble1913 jibber-jabber1922 jabberwock1959 1899 E. W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman 199 ‘Don't talk through yer neck,’ snarled the convict. ‘Talk out straight, curse you!’ 1907 Strand Mag. June 672/1 We are not slow to tell them they are ‘talking through the back of their neck’. 1923 Pall Mall Gaz. & Globe 13 Apr. 3/3 Anybody who gets up in this House and talks about universal peace knows he is talking through the back of his neck. 1941 P. G. Wodehouse Berlin Broadcasts in Performing Flea (1961) i. 266 Algy didn't know a thing about it and was almost certainly talking through the back of his neck. 1971 J. Yardley Kiss a Day viii. 153 Honey chile may well be talking through the back of her gorgeous neck. 2000 P. Beatty Tuff xiii. 180 I was talking out the back of my neck and said some shit without really thinking. to talk through (the back of) one's neck c. to talk big, tall, etc. (colloquial or slang): to talk boastfully; to indulge in inflated language; see also big adv. 3. to talk down (to an audience), to lower one's discourse to the assumed level of their intelligence; also transferred (in quots., of writers). to talk through one's hat: see hat n. Phrases 17; to talk through (the back of) one's neck: see neck n.1 Phrases 13; to talk turkey: see turkey n.2 2d. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak loudly or angrily thundera1340 raisec1384 to speak outc1515 jowlc1540 fulmine1623 to talk big1680 tang1686 to speak upa1723 to go ona1753 rip1828 whalea1852 yap1864 to rip and tear1884 megaphone1901 to pop off1914 foghorn1918 to sound off1918 loudmouth1931 woof1934 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xvii. 224 I talk Big; and wherever I find an Hungry Buzzard, I throw him out a Bait. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 336 Some people think they need only talk loud and big and be very positive, to make all the World of their Opinion. 1841 C. Thirlwall Lett. (1881) I. 175 We are able to talk big about light and freedom. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. xiv. 498 ‘Say it again—what you said about the sea,’ said Mary, more comforted than if Ethel had been talking down to her. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cxi. 597 On the Fourth of July..the speaker feels bound to talk his very tallest. 1919 H. S. Walpole Jeremy ii. 43 He always talked down to us as though we were beings of another and inferior planet. He called it, ‘Getting on with the little ones.’ 1954 M. F. Rodell Myst. Fiction i. 1 This does not mean that mystery fiction need be hack work; nor that the authors of it must ‘talk down’ to their audiences. 1970 Sci. Jrnl. Apr. 84/2 The authors for future titles all seem to be practising scientists. The problem will be whether they can achieve the necessary clarity of style without ‘talking down’ to their new audiences. < as lemmas |
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