| 单词 | to be the rage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be (also become) (all) the rage g. As complement: a widespread, temporary fashion or enthusiasm; esp. in to be (also become) (all) the rage. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion > fashionable thing or craze new fangle1548 furor1704 fever1761 rage1780 go1784 the fashion1790 furore1790 fashionablea1800 craze1813 delirament1856 fad1881 fash1895 new thinga1911 flu1943 kick1946 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > temporary desire frenzy1632 mania1689 furor1704 influenza1773 rage1780 furore1790 monomania1834 bug1887 craze1887 enthusiasm1895 1780 E. Griffith Times iii. 31 Eating is the rage, the high ton at present, and indeed is one of the most refined of our modern studies. 1797 T. Morton Cure for Heart-ache iii. i. 46 Any thing new in high life?—what is the present rage with ladies of fashion? 1811 Ld. Byron Let. 15 Dec. (1973) II. 149 Tomorrow, I dine with Rogers & am to hear Coleridge, who is a kind of rage at present. 1832 E. C. Wines Two Years & Half in Navy 7 The Navy is all the rage at Norfolk. Its officers are in great demand. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. Notes 173 Sylla is said to have transported to Italy the worship of the Egyptian Isis. It soon became ‘the rage’—and was peculiarly in vogue with the Roman ladies. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxix. 322 My cap is..one of those little blue velvet ones that are all the rage, with gold cord and tassels. 1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids v. 82 Certain unmistakable derniers cris, some of them undoubtedly destined..to become the rage of tomorrow: others, I would say, a dead loss from their very inception. 1993 Wine May 29/2 It was all the rage for rich businessmen and industrialists to own their own bodega. < as lemmas |
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