英语词汇“too hot to handle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P10. too hot to handle: too difficult to control, manage, or deal with adequately (in early use frequently in Baseball, of a ball); too risky or provocative.The influence of other senses is evident in several quots. Cf. quots. 1885, 1917 with sense A. 9d, quot. 1959 with sense A. 8c, and quot. 1969 with sense A. 9e and handle v.¹ 9.

ΚΠ

1822 A. Cunningham Sir Marmaduke Maxwell v. i. 49 My Lord Protector has resigned his sword; 'Twas much too hot to handle.

1885 N.Y. Times 3 Sept. 2 Caskins went to base on balls, was advanced on Kirby's hit to Crane, which proved too hot to handle, and scored on Dunlap's sacrifice to McQuery.

1917 N.Y. Tribune 7 June 11/1 ‘The last shot from the American ship’, says a bulletin from the State Department, ‘apparently was a clean hit.’ The German official scorers called it an error; but the American o.s., because it was too hot to handle, called it a clean hit. No runs.

1959 Daily Mail 17 Oct. 3/1 All in true Mae West tradition. Said a Columbia Broadcasting System spokesman sorrowfully: ‘Some of her answers when the show was recorded were just too hot to handle.’

1969 Times 4 July 3/8 Many stolen works of art have been recovered recently..which suggests that thieves are finding them too hot to handle.

1992 Washington Post (National ed.) 19 Oct. 31/1 More money for the stalled savings and loan cleanup was too hot to handle in an election year.

2000 C. A. Ruud in R. J. Goldstein War for Public Mind vii. 253 When censors found a writer or editor too hot to handle, they would send his material up the line, where it might even reach the tsar.

单词	too hot to handle
释义	> as lemmas too hot to handle P10. too hot to handle: too difficult to control, manage, or deal with adequately (in early use frequently in Baseball, of a ball); too risky or provocative.The influence of other senses is evident in several quots. Cf. quots. 1885, 1917 with sense A. 9d, quot. 1959 with sense A. 8c, and quot. 1969 with sense A. 9e and handle v.¹ 9. ΚΠ 1822 A. Cunningham Sir Marmaduke Maxwell v. i. 49 My Lord Protector has resigned his sword; 'Twas much too hot to handle. 1885 N.Y. Times 3 Sept. 2 Caskins went to base on balls, was advanced on Kirby's hit to Crane, which proved too hot to handle, and scored on Dunlap's sacrifice to McQuery. 1917 N.Y. Tribune 7 June 11/1 ‘The last shot from the American ship’, says a bulletin from the State Department, ‘apparently was a clean hit.’ The German official scorers called it an error; but the American o.s., because it was too hot to handle, called it a clean hit. No runs. 1959 Daily Mail 17 Oct. 3/1 All in true Mae West tradition. Said a Columbia Broadcasting System spokesman sorrowfully: ‘Some of her answers when the show was recorded were just too hot to handle.’ 1969 Times 4 July 3/8 Many stolen works of art have been recovered recently..which suggests that thieves are finding them too hot to handle. 1992 Washington Post (National ed.) 19 Oct. 31/1 More money for the stalled savings and loan cleanup was too hot to handle in an election year. 2000 C. A. Ruud in R. J. Goldstein War for Public Mind vii. 253 When censors found a writer or editor too hot to handle, they would send his material up the line, where it might even reach the tsar. extracted from hotadj.n.¹ < as lemmas
随便看	plaid-wrapped plaidder plaiddest plaided plaider plaidest plaidie plaiding plaiding blanket plaiding coat plaidman plaidmen plaidnook plaidoyer plaidpatterned plaids plaidshawl plaidshirted plaidwrapped plaie plain plain age plain as a packsaddle plain as a packstaff plain as a pad-staff

> as lemmas