| 单词 | to reach for one's gun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto reach for one's gun (also revolver, etc.) P2. to reach for one's gun (also revolver, etc.): to react with extreme hostility.The statement in quot. 1953 is commonly attributed to the German Nazi leader H. Goering (1893–1946), but it has been traced (in a slightly different form) to the nationalistic play Schlageter (1933) by the German dramatist H. Johst (1890–1978): see Oxf. Dict. Quotations (ed. 6, 2004). [The original German (Wenn ich Kultur höre..entsichere ich meinen Browning! ( H. Johst Schlageter (1933) i. i. 26)) lit. translates as ‘When I hear culture..I release the safety catch on my Browning.’] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > be hostile [verb (intransitive)] > react with extreme hostility to reach for one's gun (also revolver, etc.)1953 1953 in Oxf. Dict. Quotations (ed. 2) 223/2 When I hear anyone talk of Culture, I reach for my revolver. 1959 Spectator 9 Oct. 480/2 Cherwell was not a cultured man; indeed he seems almost to have reached for his gun when ‘culture’ was in the air. 1967 Guardian 12 Oct. 9/6 This is the point at which Laing's critics reach for their guns. 1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Dec. Approximate playing from one percussionist in the Sabre Dance might have had Feldbrill reaching for his revolver. 2005 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 16 Oct. Frankly, if I see [him]..dragging his weary bones through yet another 263 pages of finely-honed literary fiction, I will reach for my gun. < as lemmas |
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