| 单词 | to poke the bear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto poke the bear P7. to poke the bear and variants: to deliberately provoke or antagonize a person or group, esp. one that is dangerous or powerful.rare before late 20th cent. ΚΠ 1840 Morning Post 24 Feb. Boswell, by way of ‘poking the bear’ perhaps, asked whether the poetry of Gray (a man of that time) did not ‘tower above the common mark?’ 1998 St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press (Nexis) 14 Aug. (Sports section) 1 Deputy commissioner Russ Granik greeted the news with basically a ‘Ha ha! We win that one!’ Which violates rule No. 1 of labor negotiations: Never poke the bear with a stick. 2014 V. Laurie Ghoul Next Door 228 Kendra was obviously interested in poking the bear, because most of her questions were meant to bait Foster into admitting he'd killed Bethany. < as lemmas |
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