英语词汇“to have sticky fingers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. sticky fingers: used allusively to indicate that someone is given to stealing. Frequently in to have sticky fingers: to be given to stealing, to be a thief.Cf. sticky-fingered adj. at Compounds, to have fingers made of lime-twigs at finger n. Phrases 2d.

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1840 Med. Times 25 Jan. 170/3 The managers of the public institutions in question have strangely sticky fingers.

1976 A. Miller Inside Outside i. 16 To safeguard the money from the sticky fingers of some of the boys.

1993 F. Weldon in M. Bradbury & A. Motion New Writing 2 119 Serve them right, we cry—the bastards, the property developers, sticky fingers in the pension fund.

1995 Denver Post 5 Mar. a13/1 I can remember his mother drank too much and had sticky fingers.

单词	to have sticky fingers
释义	> as lemmas to have sticky fingers P1. sticky fingers: used allusively to indicate that someone is given to stealing. Frequently in to have sticky fingers: to be given to stealing, to be a thief.Cf. sticky-fingered adj. at Compounds, to have fingers made of lime-twigs at finger n. Phrases 2d. ΚΠ 1840 Med. Times 25 Jan. 170/3 The managers of the public institutions in question have strangely sticky fingers. 1976 A. Miller Inside Outside i. 16 To safeguard the money from the sticky fingers of some of the boys. 1993 F. Weldon in M. Bradbury & A. Motion New Writing 2 119 Serve them right, we cry—the bastards, the property developers, sticky fingers in the pension fund. 1995 Denver Post 5 Mar. a13/1 I can remember his mother drank too much and had sticky fingers. extracted from stickyadj.² < as lemmas
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