| 单词 | to miss the boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto miss the boat (also bus, etc.) e. transitive. colloquial. to miss the boat (also bus, etc.): to be too slow to take advantage of an opportunity. ΚΠ 1886 J. Morley Crit. Misc. III. 147 Though he [sc. Mark Pattison] appeared..as much a Catholic at heart as Newman..it was probably his constitutional incapacity for heroic and decisive courses that made him, according to the Oxford legend, miss the omnibus. 1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Nov. 32/1 I am the groom who's lost his blessed bride—The bloke who's missed the 'bus. 1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 3 Sept. 4/5 As a medium for a dull debut, ‘A Devil's Disciple’ by Bernard Shaw.., to use an Americanism, missed the boat by twenty years. 1931 Time & Tide 29 Aug. 1001 There are ten men in the Cabinet... There are three more who, by strange irony of circumstance, have missed the train. 1940 Manch. Guardian Weekly 10 May 357 He [sc. Mr. Chamberlain]..boasted that Hitler has ‘missed the bus’. 1973 Times 24 Mar. 2/4 Some firms were missing the boat because their managements were not prepared to be adventurous. 1993 Eng. Today Apr. 40/2 Two kinds of CD-ROM publishers—those in danger of missing the networking boat and those who do not even know there is a boat to catch. < as lemmas |
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