| 单词 | to put up a black |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put up a black 15. Originally Services' slang. [Probably short for black mark n.] A serious mistake or blunder, esp. in to put up a black: to make a blunder. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)] shail1528 blunder1711 floor1835 to make a bloomer1889 pull1913 to drop a brick1916 boob1935 to put up a black1939 goof1941 to screw up1942 to drop a bollock1948 to drop a clanger1948 to cock up1974 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder blunder1706 blunderbuss1726 floor1841 bull1846 howler1872 atrocity1878 break1884 bloomer1889 boner1912 bish1937 black1939 blue1941 cock-up1946 piss-up1950 screw-up1950 blob1952 1939 Flight 26 Oct. 335/2 Last week's special black. The ex-civil pilot..who thought that the ripcord of his parachute was a carrying handle specially provided by the kind manufacturers. 1941 Eng. Digest Feb. 38/1 A glaring error is a ‘black’. ‘I have put up a black,’ they will say. 1943 Word Study Apr. 6/1 Far from committing the black they expected, she showed great heroism. 1946 G. Gibson Enemy Coast Ahead xi. 142 One day she put up a black... She had fried our salmon in batter. 1985 Times 2 May 11/8 Once again it looks as if Cobb may have ‘put up a black’. 2007 A. L. Kennedy Day 49 Nothing was settled beyond Johnnie Bastard Hanson getting his way and putting up a black for all of them. < as lemmas |
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