英语词汇“to hang out to dry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to hang (someone) out to dry (also to leave (someone) out to dry, etc.) and variants: to put (someone) in a difficult, vulnerable, or compromising situation, especially by being exposed to blame; hence simply out to dry.

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1950 Los Angeles Sentinel 22 June b1/1 Her song-sational vocalizing took all standing records by the tail and ‘hung them out to dry’.

1978 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 20 Jan. People would hang us out to dry if we tried to change the look of the cable cars.

1985 R. Caron Bingo! iii. 19 They pointed out to Lorne that I was a lucrative catch, with a Montreal reputation, and by laying me out to dry the word would get around about back-room justice.

1998 J. J. Dewey Immortal (2005) II. 351 She was feeling that God himself had betrayed her and had left her out to dry.

2007 Reno (Nevada) Gaz.-Jrnl. 10 Sept. a1 If we don't try and something's found later on, we're out to dry.

2011 Economist 26 Feb. 64/3 The price rises will swiftly be reversed and the bosses responsible..could find themselves hung out to dry.

2. transitive. To suspend (a sign, colours, or the like) from a window, on a projecting pole, a rope, etc.; to display as a sign or signal. Also to hang out to dry: to suspend (wet washing) on a clothes-line in the open so that it can dry. Hence transferred in Cricket: hang one's bat out to dry (see quots.). to hang out one's shingle (U.S. colloquial) to put up one's sign-board or door-plate, to establish oneself in business.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > types of batting

to play back1816

to step in1837

to play forward1851

to run out1858

slog1869

hang one's bat out to dry1895

to force the game1897

to farm the strike1901

to sit on (or upon) the splice1906

1564 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 166 Takynge care, that they..doe neyther hange or beate oute..eny maner of beddynge or apparrell.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 129 While women are bathing themselves, they hang out a rope at the first entrance of the house, which is a signe.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 79 I will..be the Physitian, and hang out an Urinall.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 265. ¶6 The Whig and Tory Ladies begin already to hang out different Colours.

1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. i. Prol. ii. 4 When she was hanging out the clothes.

1893 N.E.D. at Clothes Clothes-line, rope, a cord or wire on which to hang out washed clothes to dry.

1895 C. B. Fry in Badminton Mag. Aug. 132 He [sc. the young player on hard wickets] gets into the habit of moving his right leg, leaving his bat hanging out to dry, and playing crooked.

a1898 Mod. Flags and banners were hung out in honour of the royal visit.

1925 Country Life 25 July 142/1 In playing forward..never ‘hang your bat out to dry’ by not advancing your left foot to the pitch of the ball; if you do, you have neither power nor control.

单词	to hang out to dry
释义	> as lemmas to hang (someone) out to dry colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to hang (someone) out to dry (also to leave (someone) out to dry, etc.) and variants: to put (someone) in a difficult, vulnerable, or compromising situation, especially by being exposed to blame; hence simply out to dry. ΚΠ 1950 Los Angeles Sentinel 22 June b1/1 Her song-sational vocalizing took all standing records by the tail and ‘hung them out to dry’. 1978 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 20 Jan. People would hang us out to dry if we tried to change the look of the cable cars. 1985 R. Caron Bingo! iii. 19 They pointed out to Lorne that I was a lucrative catch, with a Montreal reputation, and by laying me out to dry the word would get around about back-room justice. 1998 J. J. Dewey Immortal (2005) II. 351 She was feeling that God himself had betrayed her and had left her out to dry. 2007 Reno (Nevada) Gaz.-Jrnl. 10 Sept. a1 If we don't try and something's found later on, we're out to dry. 2011 Economist 26 Feb. 64/3 The price rises will swiftly be reversed and the bosses responsible..could find themselves hung out to dry. extracted from dryv. to hang out to dry 2. transitive. To suspend (a sign, colours, or the like) from a window, on a projecting pole, a rope, etc.; to display as a sign or signal. Also to hang out to dry: to suspend (wet washing) on a clothes-line in the open so that it can dry. Hence transferred in Cricket: hang one's bat out to dry (see quots.). to hang out one's shingle (U.S. colloquial) to put up one's sign-board or door-plate, to establish oneself in business. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > types of batting to play back1816 to step in1837 to play forward1851 to run out1858 slog1869 hang one's bat out to dry1895 to force the game1897 to farm the strike1901 to sit on (or upon) the splice1906 1564 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 166 Takynge care, that they..doe neyther hange or beate oute..eny maner of beddynge or apparrell. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 129 While women are bathing themselves, they hang out a rope at the first entrance of the house, which is a signe. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 79 I will..be the Physitian, and hang out an Urinall. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 265. ¶6 The Whig and Tory Ladies begin already to hang out different Colours. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. i. Prol. ii. 4 When she was hanging out the clothes. 1893 N.E.D. at Clothes Clothes-line, rope, a cord or wire on which to hang out washed clothes to dry. 1895 C. B. Fry in Badminton Mag. Aug. 132 He [sc. the young player on hard wickets] gets into the habit of moving his right leg, leaving his bat hanging out to dry, and playing crooked. a1898 Mod. Flags and banners were hung out in honour of the royal visit. 1925 Country Life 25 July 142/1 In playing forward..never ‘hang your bat out to dry’ by not advancing your left foot to the pitch of the ball; if you do, you have neither power nor control. extracted from hangv. < as lemmas
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