| 单词 | try-your-strength |
| 释义 | > as lemmastry-your-strength h. try-your-strength, try-your-weight: used attributively to designate an apparatus at a fair or the like which tests or measures a person's strength or weight. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > apparatus for testing strength try-your-strength1929 society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [adjective] > side-shows cosmoramic1827 try-your-strength1929 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. iv. 135 One o' these try-your-strength things..—down with the 'ammer and up she goes and rings the bell. 1930 R. Lehmann Note in Music v. 214 A try-your-strength machine that gave him his money back. 1932 Radio Times 29 July 241/1 Everything to make them feel at home..try-your-weight machines, ‘diddlers’, peeps-at-Paris. 1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves iii. 24 There was plenty and to spare of the Rev. H. P. Pinker. Even as a boy..he must have burst seams and broken try-your-weight machines. 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon vi. 97 I want to try the Try-Your-Strength machine. < as lemmas |
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