| 单词 | to drag through the mud |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drag through the mud b. to drag through the mud and variants: to slander or denigrate publicly; to make disparaging or malicious allegations about; to sully the reputation of (a person) or the worth of (a thing). ΚΠ 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiii. 289 Colonel Crawley has dragged the name of Crawley through the mud. 1885 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 777/2 He should be very thankful to be able to manage it so easily, instead of being dragged through the mud for everybody to gloat over in London. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 148 The working-man is not going to drag the honour of Dublin in the mud to please a German monarch. 1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) iv. i. 370 She was a good, decent, honest person whom my father had dragged through the mud. 1991 Daily Star 24 Dec. 5/1 The Inland Revenue muddled his file with someone who had gone bankrupt... Linda said: ‘Our names have been dragged through the mud.’ < as lemmas |
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