| 单词 | butter slide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter slide butter slide n. a surface which, as a practical joke, has been lubricated with butter (or occasionally other substances) so that it is too slippery to walk on; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [noun] > slippery smoothness > slippery surface, part, or object slide1688 butter slide1843 mudslide1856 slither1919 snow slide1927 1843 Punch 12 Aug. 72/1 Nor shall the clown in future make butter slides before the doors of respectable shopkeepers,..to throw down those customers by whom they get a livelihood. 1887 O. Wilde in Court & Society Rev. 2 Mar. 207/2 He met with a severe fall, through treading on a butter-slide, which the twins had constructed. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 20 Ice to make slides (if very slippery sometimes called a butterslide). 1953 N. Frye in Hudson Rev. 6 443 This determinism is then projected historically as the Great Western Butterslide,..which..has finally landed us all in that Pretty Pass in which we are today. 2003 Spectator (Nexis) 18 Oct. 54 Boisterous singing and often dangerous horseplay (‘butter slides’ et al.) brighten up dull days, of which there are many. < as lemmas |
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