| 单词 | to paint by number |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto paint by number(s) P5. intransitive and transitive. to paint by number(s) and variants: to paint a picture marked out in advance into sections which are numbered according to the colour to be used. Also in extended use: to do something in a mechanical or an unimaginative way. Cf. by numbers at number n. Phrases 9b; paint-by-numbers adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > paint according to medium or technique [verb (intransitive)] > other techniques enamel1601 velvet1612 to paint by number(s)1953 1953 N.Y. Times 14 June 82 (advt.) Paint by number with Craftint's new ‘Big 3’ set... Set of three 12x16 mounted canvases ready to frame. Includes 3 numbered panels. 1971 ‘P. Kavanagh’ Triumph of Evil (1972) vi. 50 He even bought this terrible oil painting... It looked as though it had been painted by numbers. 1980 Newsweek (Nexis) 28 July 63 Panov tells the story so literally that ‘The Idiot’ becomes the balletic equivalent of painting by the numbers, with characters bordering on caricature. 1994 Denver Post 8 Feb. b7/1 Artistic expression in America is never ‘paint by the numbers’. < as lemmas |
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