| 单词 | to bore a person rigid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bore (also scare, shake, etc.) a person rigid c. colloquial to bore (also scare, shake, etc.) a person rigid: to bore (scare, shake, etc.) a person excessively, or to an intolerable degree. Cf. to bore (scare, etc.) stiff at stiff adj. 11b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > to an extreme degree to bore rigid1900 1900 Harper's Mag. Jan. 270/2 The three young men were scared rigid. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 13 Binds you rigid, binds you stiff, bores you completely. 1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock xiii. 200 Dick's bloody unruffled ways and his bloody reasonable talk bind me rigid. 1972 K. Campbell Thunder on Sunday 58 It's no tourist place, I assure you... You'd be bored rigid. 1984 A. Perry Rutland Place 175 It would have shocked Caroline rigid, but now Charlotte was singing as loudly as the rest. 1999 in A. Devlin & B. Turney Going Straight 77 It shook me rigid to find out how insecure he is, and how cruel a long-term prison sentence is. 2002 C. Newland Snakeskin xviii. 238 All of a sudden, Carmen was piping up beside me, her mouth going a mile a minute, stunning everybody rigid. < as lemmas |
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