| 单词 | to walk on the wild side |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto walk on the wild side P19. colloquial. to walk on the wild side: (of a person or thing) to be different, daring, or exciting. Also: to engage in a risky, dangerous, or illicit activity. Cf. a walk on the wild side at walk n.1 Phrases 6. ΚΠ 1963 Salt Lake Tribune 2 Apr. 7/2 (heading) Concert walks on the wild side. 1969 Times Record (Troy, N.Y.) 4 Dec. 11/2 (advt.) Only the fashion-adventuress need apply!.. A woman who walks on the wild side. 1988 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 May (Television section) 57 Admitting to having walked on the wild side in every sense. 1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again 48 It is not an era of neutering, so Caesar [sc. a cat] walks on the wild side... He goes out and gets laid. 2007 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 11 Mar. (You Mag.) 40 A period when [he]..walked on the wild side... ‘I took a lot of drugs years ago’, he confides. < as lemmas |
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