| 单词 | to flop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto flop (over) b. figurative. to flop (over): to make a sudden change in one's attitude or behaviour. Also transitive, to cause to change sides; to bring over. U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's opinion [verb (intransitive)] bowa1000 forthinkc1380 to think again1493 recogitate1603 deflect1612 wheel1632 to turn round1808 to flop (over)1884 budge1930 1884 Puck (N.Y.) 6 Aug. 359/1 It is not the Independents who have ‘flopped’ this time. It is the Republican Party that has ‘flopped’ from honesty to dishonesty. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 6 Oct. 268/3 His [Sardou's] characters..flop over and act in a way quite the reverse of what we had a right to expect. 1894 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation) 18 Jan. 1/4 The purported change was..a fake to enable that canine barnacle, Soule, to flop his politics. 1904 Omaha Bee 3 Sept. 6 A number of New York newspapers have flopped to the support of Parker. 1904 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 16 Dec. 8 Mr. Roche flopped the Boston Pilot to the support of the republican candidate. 1926 C. R. Cooper Oklahoma 123 Hurriedly lawmakers who had been opposed to it ‘flopped’ to the other side. < as lemmas |
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