| 单词 | to shit a brick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shit a brick (also bricks) P5. to shit a brick (also bricks): to be extremely worried or frightened; also as int. ΚΠ 1937 ‘J. Curtis’ You're in Racket, Too 248 I was sweating bricks.] 1959 E. Schiddel Devil in Bucks County iv. ii. 266 You can go on over there an' tell 'em to go shit a brick. That's what you tell 'em. 1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1269/1 Shit, esp. be shitting, bricks, to be really worried,..to be thoroughly frightened. 1965 M. Shadbolt Among Cinders x. 83 ‘A queer thing. Something psychological.’ ‘Shit a brick,’ he said. 1976 H. Ferguson Confessions Long Distance Acid Head 48 By the time I got back to the hospital they were all shitting bricks. 1978 J. Krantz Scruples vii. 216 ‘Prince will shit a brick,’ Billy said with a giggle. 1987 D. F. Wallace Broom of Syst. (1993) 304 We're shitting all kinds of different bricks over that one. 2002 P. Theroux in Granta Winter 196 ‘I would have shit a brick.’ ‘I was wicked scared,’ Walter said. < as lemmas |
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