| 单词 | to rattle a person's cage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rattle a person's cage transitive. colloquial. to rattle a person's cage and variants: to bother or agitate a person; to shake a person up.In quot. 1952 as an insult comparing a person to a caged animal. ΚΠ 1952 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 26 May Girl to pesky fellow: Go away—when I want you I'll rattle your cage. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 271 He's weaving quite a bit; let's stop and rattle his cage to see what's wrong. 1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere xxxv. 338 You're rattlin' my cage, boy. 1994 Guardian 4 Aug. ii. 13/2 He enjoys the fact that music can still rattle the cages at the BBC. ‘Jungle makes people uneasy.’ 2000 R. Barger et al. Hell's Angel vii. 125 Not only did the Hell's Angels shake up the left..but we also rattled the cages of the right-wingers too. < as lemmas |
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