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单词 to throw a curve
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to throw a curve
P3. North American colloquial. to throw a curve and variants: to act in a surprising or unexpected manner for the purpose of disconcerting. Usually with indirect object or at.In origin a metaphorical use of sense B. 6.
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1932 Jrnl. Electr. Workers & Operators Apr. 206/2 We have to watch for somebody to throw us a curve at anytime.
1956 Washington Post 15 July a1/5 The Senate Appropriations Committee threw a curve yesterday.
1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys xi. 226 Course she might throw you a curve... She might say, ‘I think you look like a cop.’
2007 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 12 Dec. (Final ed.) a1 The ADQ pitched a curve at the government when debate began.
extracted from curveadj.n.
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