| 单词 | to hold the baby |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(to leave a person) to hold the baby P3. (to leave a person) to hold the baby and variants: (to leave a person) to deal with an unwelcome responsibility. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > be under responsibility [verb (intransitive)] > be left with a responsibility > unwelcome (to leave a person) to hold the baby1878 to hold the sack1904 1878 Times 20 Dec. 7/2 There are a number of bill discounters..whose readiness to accept its paper without inquiry, in the confidence that some one else would be left ultimately to ‘hold the baby’, was one main cause of the bank's ruin. 1895 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 1895 31 Aug. 607/2 In the meantime, who is going to fill the gap—who is going to hold the baby in connection with this guarantee? 1927 Daily Express 8 July 6 Disclaiming responsibility for all the financial misfortunes of the country, he found himself confronted by Mr. Jack Jones, who told him that he was ‘carrying the baby’ anyhow. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night vii. 153 Poor blighter. He always gets left with the baby. 1973 ‘H. Howard’ Highway to Murder vii. 76 That sounded like I was being left to hold the baby. 1999 J. J. Connolly in T. White Britpulp! 158 What's Roy done here? He's left you holding the baby, got you and Tony to test the water first and now the shit's hit, he's well out of it. < as lemmas |
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