单词 | to make a scene |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (also cause, create) a scene b. to make (also cause, create) a scene [compare French faire une scène (à quelqu'un) : see to make (a person) a scene at Phrases 7c] : to indulge in a public display of emotion or strong feeling; to cause a fuss or commotion; cf. sense 11. ΚΠ 1820 ‘Lady Humdrum’ Domest. Scenes II. 248 ‘For goodness' sake!’ cried Laura, ‘don't let us make a scene here!’ 1880 E. Scott-Stevenson Our Home in Cyprus xi. 130 She created quite ‘a scene’. When told she must bring her baby again, she gesticulated, and passionately exclaimed that ‘no one should drag her there’. 1888 Poor Nellie 34 You made a regular scene. 1916 D. Haig Diary 23 Oct. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 245 He was afraid that Joffre, being an ‘underbred individual’ might make a scene on account of my last letter to him. 1995 C. Coulter Valentine Legacy ix. 93 There was no reason to cause a scene in the middle of the Blanchards' ballroom. 2003 J. Drury Ian Dury & Blockheads iv. 82 This was a reference to the fact that I didn't mind ruffling feathers in the studio and making a scene to get my own way. to make (a person) a scene c. to make (a person) a scene [compare French faire une scène à quelqu'un (1782)] : to confront (a person) with a public display of emotion or strong feeling; to berate or reproach (a person) about something. Now rare. ΚΠ 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiv. 589 Madame de Belladonna made him a scene about you, and fired off in one of her furies. 1866 H. Kingsley Leighton Court xxvii. 96 Once she had made him a scene, but it was no use: the more she stormed the more he laughed. 1908 H. James Portrait of Lady (rev. ed.) I. ix. 112 Was Lord Warburton suddenly turning romantic—was he going to make her a scene, in his own house, only the third time they had met? 1932 E. C. Mayne tr. C. Du Bos Byron & Need of Fatality vi. 276 Byron went to Annabella's room for the purpose of making her a scene about the actresses, and an extremely violent one. 1970 N. Marsh When in Rome (1971) 105 She certainly made him a scene. < as lemmas |
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