单词 | washed up |
释义 | > as lemmas(all) washed up 3. (all) washed up: finished; without prospect of further success or competence; no longer on intimate terms; exhausted, ‘washed out’. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > the end [phrase] > at an end at an upshot1653 all over1664 the jig is over1777 the jig is up1800 all up1825 the last of pea-time1834 (all) washed up1923 the party is over1931 1923 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2/1 [Stage slang.] Washed up, all through for the night. 1925 Amer. Speech 1 36/1 [Stage slang.] How cheery it would be, when family ties begin to irk, to use their honest, ‘I'm washed up with you,’ to indicate that you hope the breach is permanent. 1933 S. Kingsley Men in White iii. i. 129 I'm washed up with the whole business. 1934 W. Saroyan Daring Young Man 38 We're washed up as a race, we're through, it's all over. 1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day xvi. 383 His lips twisted in a sneer at himself, and he thought that he was just a goddamn washed-up has-been. 1942 J. B. Priestley Black-out in Gretley viii. 182 You're too careless, Joe..and now you're all washed up. 1958 C. Williams Man in Motion (1959) ii. 23 I'm washed up as a writer. 1980 Newsweek 17 Nov. 7/1 Once he was the most underestimated man in American politics—a washed-up movie star, it was said, who was too old, too simple and too far right to be President. < as lemmas |
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