| 单词 | to flat out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto flat out b. U.S. to flat off: to slope gradually to a level. to flat out: to become gradually thinner; (also) to relax; to talk feebly. Hence figurative to fail in business; to prove a failure, to collapse, etc. ΚΠ 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) To Flat out, to collapse, to prove a failure..as ‘The meeting flatted out’. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) ix. 166 The bank flatted off for the last ten miles. 1863 ‘G. Hamilton’ Gala-days 89 Before twelve o'clock we flatted out and made jests. 1864 H. Bushnell Work & Play, Growth of Law 123 The great surge of numbers rolls up noisily and imposingly, but flats out on the shore and slides back into the mud of oblivion. 1865 J. G. Holland Plain Talks iv. 129 Those who have failed in trade..or to use an expressive Yankee phrase, have ‘flatted out’ in a calling or profession. 1887 Proctor Americanisms in Knowledge 1 June 184/1 To flat out, to diminish in value—a Western phrase suggested by the diminished productiveness of metallic layers as they grow thinner. < as lemmas |
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