英语词汇“to fall off the back of a lorry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

o. colloquial (euphemistic or humorous); originally British. to fall off the back of a lorry (also truck, etc.) and variants: (of goods, etc.) to be acquired in dubious or unspecified circumstances; esp. to be stolen. Sometimes with more general implication that something is of questionable origin or poor quality.The phrase originated in British English as to fall off the back of a lorry, which is still the usual form in British and Irish English; the variant with truck came into use slightly later in Australian and then North American English.Chiefly in the past tense or the perfect.

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1966 N.Y. Times 17 May 58/6 Sports from all over the southeast of London, and wide boys from anywhere, fellows ‘on the fiddle’, always looking for a piece of salable merchandise to ‘fall off the back of a lorry’.

1972 A. Bennett Getting On i. 26 Enid: Where did it [sc. a gravestone] come from? Geoff: Fell off the back of a churchyard.

1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Feb. 211/1 Compared with [Wordsworth's and Arnold's] capabilities, Keble's literary skills look as if they fell off the back of a lorry.

1978 Canberra Times 2 Sept. 3/1 Remember when you used to be able to [buy a shirt for under $6]? Not any more unless it's one that's ‘fallen off the back of a truck’.

1996 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 11 July 1 Top quality merchandise, enough to fill an appliance storeroom, and all at a greatly reduced price. Mainly because ‘it fell off of a truck’.

2001 Wire June 70/3 Some controversy now surrounds material coming from this East London label: has it all fallen off the back of a barrow or is it kosher?

2016 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 27 Nov. 29 The Central Bank..does not care if you saved the money, cadged it from your parents or if it fell off the back of a lorry.

单词	to fall off the back of a lorry
释义	> as lemmas to fall off the back of a lorry (also truck, etc.) o. colloquial (euphemistic or humorous); originally British. to fall off the back of a lorry (also truck, etc.) and variants: (of goods, etc.) to be acquired in dubious or unspecified circumstances; esp. to be stolen. Sometimes with more general implication that something is of questionable origin or poor quality.The phrase originated in British English as to fall off the back of a lorry, which is still the usual form in British and Irish English; the variant with truck came into use slightly later in Australian and then North American English.Chiefly in the past tense or the perfect. ΚΠ 1966 N.Y. Times 17 May 58/6 Sports from all over the southeast of London, and wide boys from anywhere, fellows ‘on the fiddle’, always looking for a piece of salable merchandise to ‘fall off the back of a lorry’. 1972 A. Bennett Getting On i. 26 Enid: Where did it [sc. a gravestone] come from? Geoff: Fell off the back of a churchyard. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Feb. 211/1 Compared with [Wordsworth's and Arnold's] capabilities, Keble's literary skills look as if they fell off the back of a lorry. 1978 Canberra Times 2 Sept. 3/1 Remember when you used to be able to [buy a shirt for under $6]? Not any more unless it's one that's ‘fallen off the back of a truck’. 1996 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 11 July 1 Top quality merchandise, enough to fill an appliance storeroom, and all at a greatly reduced price. Mainly because ‘it fell off of a truck’. 2001 Wire June 70/3 Some controversy now surrounds material coming from this East London label: has it all fallen off the back of a barrow or is it kosher? 2016 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 27 Nov. 29 The Central Bank..does not care if you saved the money, cadged it from your parents or if it fell off the back of a lorry. extracted from fallv. < as lemmas
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