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单词 to string along
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to 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.
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