单词 | to string along |
释义 | > as lemmasto string (someone) along b. to string (someone) along: to fool or deceive (someone); spec. to encourage (someone) to remain in a state of misplaced confidence. Cf. sense 3c. colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase] to put an ape in a person's hoodc1330 to glaze one's houvec1369 to cough (a person) a daw, fool, momea1529 to make a fool of1534 to give (any one) the bobc1540 to lead (a person) a dancea1545 to make (someone) an ass1548 to make (a person) an ox1566 to play bob-fool witha1592 to sell any one a bargain1598 to put the fool on1649 to make a monkey (out) of1767 to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.)1869 to string (someone) along1902 to swing it on or across1923 1902 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant xviii. 270 Clytie had been stringing the old lady along, intending to produce Bud's spook as a sort of..climax. 1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xviii. 206 I'm afraid that he's just stringing me along, trying to encourage me. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise ix. 158 He told me to string him along. And afterwards, quite suddenly, he told me to give him the push. 1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger viii. 84 ‘If he was taking you to lunch..you might work us in somewhere.’ ‘String him along, kid,’ Douglas encouraged... ‘We're with you.’ 1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder xviii. 123 How do I know you're not stringing me along, just to get Sharon to go back? 1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xi. 208 Why not string Dr. Flory along? 1978 H. C. Rae Sullivan i. iii. 39 I don't appreciate being strung along by a contract employee. < as lemmas |
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