英语词汇“to play out the string”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. transitive. North American. to play out the string and variants: to carry a process, esp. a difficult or failing one, through to its conclusion, to see a thing through to the very end; (also) to exhaust the possibilities of a situation; cf. string n. 16e.

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1896 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 16 Apr. 11/3 It was barnstorming with a vengeance, but Foutz is a man of courage, and he played out the string, to quote his own remarks.

1898 H. M. Blossom Checkers 170 Well, I've had my hard luck, and ‘played out the string’.

1943 Amer. Econ. Rev. 33 309 By Germany the system was used..for the dual purpose of achieving greater self-sufficiency and of rebuilding her armaments. By the time the present war broke out..she had about played out this string.

1965 N. Mailer Amer. Dream (1966) iv. 103 Buddy, you played out your string... Now beat it.

2003 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 8 Nov. d3 Despite a passionate effort..hope of qualifying for a bowl game was gone. Now what? Will the Nittany Lions just play out the string? Or will they have enough motivation to lay a foundation for next season?

单词	to play out the string
释义	> as lemmas to play out the string 4. transitive. North American. to play out the string and variants: to carry a process, esp. a difficult or failing one, through to its conclusion, to see a thing through to the very end; (also) to exhaust the possibilities of a situation; cf. string n. 16e. ΚΠ 1896 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 16 Apr. 11/3 It was barnstorming with a vengeance, but Foutz is a man of courage, and he played out the string, to quote his own remarks. 1898 H. M. Blossom Checkers 170 Well, I've had my hard luck, and ‘played out the string’. 1943 Amer. Econ. Rev. 33 309 By Germany the system was used..for the dual purpose of achieving greater self-sufficiency and of rebuilding her armaments. By the time the present war broke out..she had about played out this string. 1965 N. Mailer Amer. Dream (1966) iv. 103 Buddy, you played out your string... Now beat it. 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 8 Nov. d3 Despite a passionate effort..hope of qualifying for a bowl game was gone. Now what? Will the Nittany Lions just play out the string? Or will they have enough motivation to lay a foundation for next season? extracted from playv. < as lemmas
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