| 单词 | camp as a row of tents |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) camp as a row of tents (as) camp as a row of tents (and variants): extremely camp. Also (chiefly Australian and New Zealand): (obviously or overtly) homosexual.With punning allusion to camp n.2 ΚΠ 1951 E. Lambert Sleeping House Party i. 12 They were camp, as a coarse common army friend of mine once put it, as a row of tents. 1975 Times 11 Apr. 13/4 John Inman, whose outrageous Mr Humphries—camp as a row of pink tents and delivering his lines with a heart-rending, eager innocence—is of enormous value to Lloyd, Croft, and Knowles. 1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 2 June You know the type of phrase: ‘He was unmarried’, usually meant that the person in question was as camp as a row of tents. 2019 @Podfixx 6 May in twitter.com (accessed 19 July 2019) The hat, the cravat, the tassel on the cane, the shoes... Absolutely divine. Camp as a row of tents, darling, just Gorgeous! < as lemmas |
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