| 单词 | to drop like a hot brick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drop (a thing or person) like a hot brick 2. In similative phrases, as to drop (a thing or person) like a hot brick: = hot potato n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or delicacy > a difficult or delicate matter or task nicety1725 egg-dance1801 hot brick1865 hot potato1952 1865 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 21 Oct. Jake Stewart was the only late Republican who dared to mention opposition to the suffrage question, and..was glad to drop that issue like a hot brick. 1887 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Dec. 769 He was simply devoted to Miss Beaubien until Alice Renwick came. Then he dropped her like a hot brick. 1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale xiv. 169 She dropped him, but not like a hot brick or a hot potato. 1973 Times 26 Nov. 21/3 The workers of northern France..apparently are quite sure that ‘Paris’..will drop them and their interests like a hot brick the moment the energy crisis really sinks in outside Paris's blinkered borders. 2007 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Aug. 82 [She] was fed up with boyfriends dropping her like a hot brick when they discovered her father was a policeman. < as lemmas |
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