| 单词 | brown-bag |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrown-bag brown-bag v. chiefly North American (transitive) to carry (one's lunch) in a brown paper-bag; also, to carry (alcoholic drink) concealed in such a bag (to conform to certain U.S. State laws), esp. to a restaurant; also intransitive with it. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > picnic or packed meal > [verb (transitive)] > take packed lunch brown-bag1970 1970 C. M. Schulz in J. Dutton Peanuts Lunch Bag Cook Bk. 45/1 You had me take my lunch to school in a lunch box... All the other kids were brown-bagging it! 1971 Time 8 Feb. 10/3 The mistrustful Russians brown-bagged their own caviar and vodka. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xi. 249 Luke had brown-bagged two quart bottles of beer from the hotel. 1977 Rolling Stone 16 June 34/1 That other American, the devoted churchgoer who publicly votes against liquor but brown-bags it when he can. 1988 Maclean's 6 June 23/2 Dukakis's reputation as a penny pincher who brown-bags his lunches to the State House..has become a..joke. < as lemmas |
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