| 单词 | the pits |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe pits 22. slang (originally U.S.). the pits: the worst or most despicable example of something.Thought to be a development from sense 14c, though that is attested slightly later. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worst > [noun] > example of something shitc1947 the pits1953 1953 Newsweek 2 Nov. 54/3 A bad exam experience would be ‘I'm wasted’ at Howard,..‘It was the pits’ at Vassar. 1965 Amer. Speech 40 194 Pits, n. This is a slang abbreviation of the term armpits, again with an extension of meaning to entail the idea of body odor (‘He's got the pits’) or, more broadly, something unpleasant (‘It [sc. the party] was really the pits’). 1979 New Society 20 Dec. p. xi/3 If Dors is the very personification of the buxom backside of the other Britain..then Joan Collins is the pits. Just the pits. 1981 J. McEnroe in Observer 22 Nov. 11 I've never been fined for saying something obscene. It's always been for saying ‘You're the pits,’ or something. 1990 News of World 11 Feb. 25 Their studios in London are the pits. < as lemmas |
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