单词 | to be or get floored |
释义 | > as lemmasto be or get floored a. To confound, nonplus; to flabbergast, puzzle. In schoolboy slang, to be or get floored: to grow confused, be at a loss, fail, break down. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)] > nonplus stagger1556 gravel1566 set1577 trump1586 bumbaze1587 puzzlec1595 ground1597 stunt1603 nonplus1605 pose1605 stumble1605 buzzard1624 quandary1681 bamboozle1712 hobble1762 stump1807 have1816 floor1830 flummox1837 stick1851 get1868 to stick up1897 buffalo1903 1830 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 8 July (1884) The other day I was what you would call floored by a Jew. 1840 B. Disraeli Corr. with Sister (1886) 158 My facts flabbergasted him, as well as..Hume, who was ludicrously floored. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iv. 294 If you hadn't been floored yourself now at first lesson. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. v. 316 He's never going to get floored. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xi. 359 The consummate manner in which I had floored our tutor. < as lemmas |
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