| 单词 | to have come down in the last shower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have come down in the last shower P1. colloquial (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). to have come down in the last shower and variants: to be inexperienced, foolish, or gullible. Chiefly in negative contexts, esp. in I didn't come down in the last shower: I cannot be so easily deceived, ‘I wasn't born yesterday.’ ΚΠ 1843 Lowell (Mass.) Offering Nov. 11 One of them inquired..if that fellow, pointing to me, did not rain down in the last shower, for, said he, I should think his brains had been turned topsy-turvy by some dreadful mishap, and had not yet recovered their equilibrium. 1883 Illustr. Sydney News 20 Jan. 11/3 I'm not such a fool as I look, Furnival, nor did I come down in the last shower. 1887 Hawke's Bay (N.Z.) Herald 24 Sept. Mr Ivess and the principal members of his committee—men who in vulgar parlance came down in the last shower of rain—do not know that [etc.]. 1951 F. J. Hardy Power without Glory 259 ‘It's no use lying to me, Arty,’ John West said. ‘I didn't come down in the last shower.’ 1995 W. Desmond Being & Between 242 Did you come down in the last shower? Do you not know that this is the end of the twentieth century? 2015 Star Observer (Austral.) Sept. 8/3 I didn't come down in the last shower. You've been bringing Johan to Sunday dinner for the last 30 years, do you think I was blind? < as lemmas |
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