| 单词 | to go down the road |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go down the road (also track) P5. colloquial (originally Australian and New Zealand). to send (a person) down the road (also track) and variants: to dismiss (someone) from employment; to send (a person) away from a workplace. Similarly to go down the road (also track) and variants: to be dismissed from employment, to be sent away. ΚΠ 1932 Austral. Worker 12 Oct. 15/4 Men who are not financial members of the A.W.U. will be sent ‘down the road’. 1952 J. A. Thomson Deer Hunter 21 Any [workers] that don't pull their weight on the open range..are not long in going down the track. 1973 D. Wallace Generation Gap 194 For Gawd's sake, boss, get him [sc. a violent camp cook] down the track fast. It can't be too fast for us. 1979 J. Hurling Boomers 2 We don't do anything half-assed here. It's got to be the best or you'll be going down the road where you came from. 2007 M. Lewycka Two Caravans 142 Listen, yer bloody Polish big girl's blouse, next time I get any lip from you, it's down the road. < as lemmas |
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