| 单词 | to throw a curveball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto throw (someone) a curveball 2. figurative. Originally U.S. Something whose unexpectedness or unpredictable nature enables one to disorient or wrong-foot one's opponents; (more generally) something unexpected, surprising, or disorienting. Often in to throw (someone) a curveball. Cf. googly n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [noun] > cause of surprise marvelc1300 miracle1586 surprise1592 bricolea1631 surprisal1660 thunderbolt1787 startle1823 start1825 startler1829 eye-opener1833 a bolt from (or out of) the blue1837 shock1841 thunder-clap1852 startlement1867 staggerer1872 thunderstroke1880 Scarborough warning1890 surprise packet1900 bombshell1926 curveball1936 turn-up1942 a turn-up for the book(s)1948 conversation stopper1959 left turn1986 1936 N.Y. Times 16 May 4/2 The Senate committee was thought to be preparing to ‘throw a curve ball’; that is, to offer a bill which its leaders knew would be changed in material particulars. 1958 Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, N.Y.) 5 Nov. 4/2 Comrade Ehrenburg threw himself a real curve ball on that occasion—and one that he's still swinging at. 1993 Rolling Stone 8 July 17/1 Musically, the two big curveballs on the record are ‘Numb’..and ‘Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car’. 2002 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 20 Jan. (Mag.) 6/2 As has happened so often in O'Neal's life, she got hit with a curveball. 2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 18 Perhaps you can picture me, a thin, white-haired woman hurling a curveball into the middle of another of your mundane days. < as lemmas |
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