| 单词 | to brush off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto brush off b. to brush off: figurative, to rebuff, dismiss (a person, etc.). So brush-off n. a rebuff, dismissal. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > rebuff rebut1488 reject1529 counterbuff1579 rebuffa1586 repel1593 slighta1616 to blow off1631 squab1812 respue1818 snout1916 stiff-arm1927 to knock back1930 to brush off1941 the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > a denial or refusal > rebuff rebuff1582 affrontment1611 backslap1828 marching orders1856 a slap in (or on) the face, in the eye, on the wrist1861 rebuffal1887 a smack in the face1895 brush1941 brush-off1941 a smack in the eye1941 1941 J. R. Parker Attorneys at Law i. 10 I'd have given my eye teeth to hear Forbes getting the brush-off. 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 132 Since Sammy was waiting for Julian the chances are he'd only brush me off. 1943 L. Browne See what I Mean? i. 8 No matter where I turned, I was given the brush-off. 1944 Amer. Speech 19 310/2 The organizer of a Brush-off-club ‘made up of mournful soldiers who were given the hemlock cup by femmes back home’. 1947 J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 71 Casual kindness in a man she had found to be the preliminary to a brush-off. 1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard v. 68 The bleakly familiar: ‘The post has been filled’, or the more courteous brush-off: ‘We will keep your letter on record in case a suitable post arises’. 1969 Listener 31 July 131/2 The problem of the future of British sovereignty can no longer be brushed off with humorous references to accepting foreign referees' decisions in international football matches. < as lemmas |
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