| 单词 | to be in, get in , a flap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be in, get in(to), a flap c. colloquial. figurative. A state of worry, agitation, fuss, or excitement. Esp. in phrases, to be in, get in(to), a flap. Also spec., an alert (military sense). (Cf. flap v. 10b; unflappable adj.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > sudden or surprise attack supprise1412 surprise1457 supprising1487 alarm1548 larum1549 canvasado1581 descent1587 surprisal1591 flaw1596 canvass1611 insult1710 swoop1824 flap1916 the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > be in state of nervous excitement [verb (intransitive)] to take ona1450 seethe1609 trepidate1623 to take on oneself1632 flutter1668 pother1715 to be upon the nettle (also in a nettle)1723 to be nerve all over1778 to be all nerve1819 to be (all) on wires1824 to break up1825 to carry on1828 to be on (occasionally upon or on the) edge1872 faff1874 to have kittens1900 flap1910 to be in, get in(to), a flap1939 to go sparec1942 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 faffle1965 to get one's knickers in a twist1971 to have a canary1971 to wet one's pants1979 tweak1981 1916 In Northern Mists xliv. 188 Sometimes our departures are more than usually sudden and unexpected. The whole proceeding then becomes what is known amongst us as ‘a Flap’. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 95 A flap: the familiar Navy term for the sudden ‘liveliness’ on board ship on the arrival of an emergency order involving general activity at extreme high pressure... Also, an airman's term for an air-raid. 1936 Punch 2 Sept. 265/1 At the moment there is a flap because the price of bread is going up. 1939 Punch 30 Aug. 231 Now don't go and get into a flap or anything, Mother, but Joan's broken her arm. 1940 ‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk i. x. 78 Then happened one of our monthly ‘flaps’ (invasion scares). 1942 W. Simpson One of our Pilots is Safe ii. 39 From then on until the 10th May, when the blitz started in Holland and Belgium, we were subjected to a series of ‘flaps’. 1942 W. Simpson One of our Pilots is Safe ii. 40 Get your flight up right away, there's a flap on. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 14 ‘D'you think it's the real thing?’ ‘No.’ ‘Just a flap?’ ‘Yes.’ 1949 H. Pakington Young W. Washbourne xx. 186 There was a sense of something afoot. ‘What's the flap?’ asked William of the man whose watch he was relieving. ‘Only our battle-cruisers engaging the enemy,’ replied the other. 1956 W. Slim Defeat into Victory xi. 236 Everything was working smoothly, there was no flap. 1960 Cambr. Rev. 7 May 510/2 It is quite untrue to say that emotionally vulnerable patients who ‘get into a flap’ over exams will subsequently panic when a real situation threatens them in later life. < as lemmas |
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