英语词汇“to kick the can down the road”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

U.S. colloquial. to kick the can down the road (also street): to delay dealing with a difficult situation.Quot. 1969 is an apparently isolated use, evoking the prospect of becoming jobless and unoccupied.

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1969 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 14 Dec. 18/8 He is alleged to have told workers that if they didn't like the way the water works was run they could ‘kick the can down the road.’]

1983 D. C. Jones in 1st Concurrent Resol. on Budget—Fiscal Year 1984: Hearings before U.S. Senate Budget Comm.: National Security (98th Congr., 1st Sess.) I. 128 The key question is whether we are going to face up to that problem today, or kick the can down the street.

1999 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 21 Jan. a10/5 The senators decided to decide some other day.., this exercise in kicking the can down the road was heralded by the kickers as an act of statesmanship akin to Lend-Lease.

2014 D. Weidemer et al. Aftershock Investor ii. 53 It is a short term fix that comes at an incredibly high long-term price. We're not just kicking the can down the road, we're piling up sticks of dynamite in that can.

单词	to kick the can down the road
释义	> as lemmas to kick the can down the road (also street) U.S. colloquial. to kick the can down the road (also street): to delay dealing with a difficult situation.Quot. 1969 is an apparently isolated use, evoking the prospect of becoming jobless and unoccupied. ΚΠ 1969 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 14 Dec. 18/8 He is alleged to have told workers that if they didn't like the way the water works was run they could ‘kick the can down the road.’] 1983 D. C. Jones in 1st Concurrent Resol. on Budget—Fiscal Year 1984: Hearings before U.S. Senate Budget Comm.: National Security (98th Congr., 1st Sess.) I. 128 The key question is whether we are going to face up to that problem today, or kick the can down the street. 1999 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 21 Jan. a10/5 The senators decided to decide some other day.., this exercise in kicking the can down the road was heralded by the kickers as an act of statesmanship akin to Lend-Lease. 2014 D. Weidemer et al. Aftershock Investor ii. 53 It is a short term fix that comes at an incredibly high long-term price. We're not just kicking the can down the road, we're piling up sticks of dynamite in that can. extracted from kickv.¹ < as lemmas
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