| 单词 | to drop like a hot potato |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drop (a thing or person) like a hot potato a. to drop (a thing or person) like a hot potato: to abandon (something or someone) hastily. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > quickly to drop (a thing or person) like a hot potato1821 1821 Kaleidoscope 7 Aug. 40/1 You prudently drop that subject, as Pat says, ‘like a hot potato.’ 1846 Spirit of Times 6 June 170/1 I dropped the divine's arm ‘like a hot potatoe’. 1861 H. Rhys Theatr. Trip for Wager xi. 96 A deep growl..made me drop the article like a hot potato. 1886 B. P. Poore Perley's Reminisc. I. 448 They dropped him like a hot potato when they learned that he had accepted a place on the Republican Committee of his State. 1901 Times 1 July 11/4 Six years ago they took up the subject, but dropped it like a hot potato, when their own unpreparedness..raised unforeseen difficulties. 1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale xiv. 169 She dropped him, but not like a hot brick or a hot potato. 1989 D. Merwin Vessel of Wrath in A. Stevenson Bitter Fame 344 Bill's lethally polite brush-off..would have shamed most women into dropping the come-hither like a hot potato. < as lemmas |
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