英语词汇“to throw away the key”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Originally U.S. to lock (a person) up and throw away the key and variants: to commit (a person) to prison, esp. for life; to punish severely for a crime. Also simply to throw away the key.

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1908 Washington Post 21 June 4/2 In Europe they round up the masses and lock them in the corral and throw away the key.

1911 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. 4/3 If Gompers is arrested on this contempt charge..it will be in the interest of organized labor—decent labor—to lock him up and throw away the key.

1949 S. Kingsley Detective Story i. 35 We're gonna get the D.A. to throw away the key.

1982 R. L. Woodson in J. A. Meyer Meeting Human Needs iv. 407 As a result of past failures to reach these youths, a consensus appears to be forming toward hard-core offenders—to ‘lock them up and throw away the key’.

1996 Times 26 Apr. 3/2 I'd say ‘Throw away the key’ if I thought he'd done it.

2003 N.Y. Mag. 17 Nov. 14/1 Enough with liberal guilt; let's just lock 'em up and throw away the key!

单词	to throw away the key
释义	> as lemmas to throw away the key b. Originally U.S. to lock (a person) up and throw away the key and variants: to commit (a person) to prison, esp. for life; to punish severely for a crime. Also simply to throw away the key. ΚΠ 1908 Washington Post 21 June 4/2 In Europe they round up the masses and lock them in the corral and throw away the key. 1911 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. 4/3 If Gompers is arrested on this contempt charge..it will be in the interest of organized labor—decent labor—to lock him up and throw away the key. 1949 S. Kingsley Detective Story i. 35 We're gonna get the D.A. to throw away the key. 1982 R. L. Woodson in J. A. Meyer Meeting Human Needs iv. 407 As a result of past failures to reach these youths, a consensus appears to be forming toward hard-core offenders—to ‘lock them up and throw away the key’. 1996 Times 26 Apr. 3/2 I'd say ‘Throw away the key’ if I thought he'd done it. 2003 N.Y. Mag. 17 Nov. 14/1 Enough with liberal guilt; let's just lock 'em up and throw away the key! extracted from keyn.¹adj. < as lemmas
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