| 单词 | to pick up one's marbles and go home |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pick up one's marbles and go home e. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to pick up one's marbles and go home and variants: to withdraw from an activity, esp. prematurely or petulantly after having suffered a setback. ΚΠ 1929 C. MacArthur War Bugs 29 They implied that war wasn't any good and advised us to pick up our marbles and go home. 1975 Audubon Mar. 60/1 Once again from Reserve came ominous hints that if it cannot have its way, that if it must abate the discharge on anyone's terms other than its own, then perhaps it might pick up its marbles and go home to Middletown, leaving its 3,200 workers to the vicissitudes of unemployment and public assistance. 1983 W. N. Rowe Clapp's Rock xvii. 293 Neil Godwin is just a little sooky baby, that's all, who doesn't have the guts to take a bad defeat, and is now picking up his marbles and going home because his political career is in tatters. 1990 Times 20 June 13/1 We aren't going to pick up our marbles and go home. < as lemmas |
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