| 单词 | to come out flat-footed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come out flat-footed (for) a. colloquial (originally U.S.) Downright, plain and positive; also, dead, insipid, maladroit. to come out flat-footed (for): to make a bold or positive statement of one's opinion, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward stubblea1300 lubber?1515 awkward1530 unwieldy1530 lubberlike1572 unwieldsome1579 lubberly1580 looby1582 wieldy1588 clumsy1597 ungainly1611 unqueme1611 untowardly1611 clouter-likea1624 hip-shot1642 loobish1648 loobily1655 bumble-arsed1661 clouterly1675 lubbard1679 fumbling1681 sinistrousa1682 maladroit1685 shammockinga1704 ungain1710 splay-footed1716 gawky1759 hobbledehoyish1812 uncouthly1821 nunting1836 shammocky1841 numb1854 awkwardish1860 slummocky?1861 numb-footed1867 gawkish1876 flat-footed1899 brontosaurian1909 shamblya1937 slew-foot1945 ham-footed1960 klutzy1961 dorkus1979 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid colourlessc1425 unsavouryc1449 wearish?1533 wersha1599 tasteless1603 tame1604 juiceless1620 water gruela1627 dry1632 soulless1632 frigid1643 vapid1656 insipida1684 fade1715 heartless1780 vapid1785 achromatic1799 sauceless1817 albuminous1858 antiseptic1891 flat-footed1899 unatmospheric1913 defanged1920 anodyne1933 spiceless1942 tea-party1961 nothingburger1965 1828 A. Royall Black Bk. II. 114 He was one of your right down flat-footed ox-drivers. 1834 Knickerbocker 3 35 I haint got no shoes, tis true, but I stand flat~footed and damn the man who can move me one inch. 1846 N.Y. Herald 30 June Mr. Pickens..has come out flat-footed for the administration. 1858 Harper's Mag. Sept. 563 His..bold, flat-footed way of saying things. 1863 Gray Lett. II. 504 Complaining of Lyell that he does not come out ‘flat-footed’ as we say, as an advocate of natural-selection transmutation. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 6 Nov. 2/3 A flat-footed, commonplace scribbler of heroic verse. 1902 Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 3/2 His ‘enigmatic smile’ and his flat-footed compliments. 1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 4/2 Histories of literature..in which the erudite..mind traverses with flat-footed thoroughness the country it has mapped out for itself. 1931 W. G. McAdoo Crowded Years 367 Germany came out flat-footed with the belligerent warning..that she would engage in unrestricted submarine warfare. 1957 R. Campbell Coll. Poems II. 111 Weird blue-stockings with damp, flatfooted minds. 1962 Daily Mail 19 Jan. 3/8 It is time Associated-Rediffusion presented something less flat-footed and insipid. < as lemmas |
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