| 单词 | to go stag |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go stag f. U.S. A man who attends a social function without a female partner. Also quasi-adv. in to go stag. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > [noun] > participant > unattached man or men stag1905 stag line1934 1905 N. Davis Northerner 213 ‘No man not escorting a lady’—a stag, you know—could go upon the floor. 1905 Dial. Notes 3 21 Are you going to the dance stag? 1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xix. 210 True, he was not ‘dragging a woman’, but several of the brothers were going ‘stag’; so he felt completely at ease. 1926 Ladies' Home Jrnl. July 117 Too many girls failed to get paired; too many boys went stag and saved cab hire. 1928 Daily Express 14 Dec. 19 A needy or avaricious ‘stag’—as male dancers are called in the United States. 1948 This Week Mag. 1 May 16/3 The sign read: ‘No Stags Allowed’. 1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. viii. 117 A lot of boys went to the parties stag. Social life was easy for them, not the way it was for girls, who had to wait..until someone called. 1980 R. L. Duncan Brimstone iii. 59 They're not going to let you in by yourself. They have a rule against stags. < as lemmas |
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