| 单词 | to sweat it out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sweat it out b. transitive. With out, to await or endure anxiously or with unease. Esp. in to sweat it out. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > anxiously to sweat it out1876 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xx. 163 Well, it's a kind of a tight place for Becky Thatcher... Let her sweat it out! 1942 E. Colby Army Talk 229 Sweat..is a synonym for wait. You sweat a man out when you are waiting for him. You ‘sweat out’ a chow line while waiting for your turn for the sergeant to put your food in the mess kit. 1945 ‘L. Lewis’ Birthday Murder (1951) xiii. 191 I haven't much time..but I'll sweat it out awhile. 1960 News Chron. 29 Sept. 1 Mr. Khruschev is just sweating it out in New York for an announcement of a manned flight in orbit. 1976 ‘D. Fletcher’ Don't whistle ‘Macbeth’ 148 I had no intention of telling Hugo... Let him sweat that one out. < as lemmas |
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