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单词 haywire
释义
haywirehay‧wire /ˈheɪwaɪə $ -waɪr/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINhaywire
Origin:
1900-2000 From the use of hay-tying wire for quick repairs
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • After that, things went slightly haywire, but to reach the open marketplace was easy.
  • Everything would go haywire if he saw her.
  • Had it been an accidental hit with a haywire missile?
  • He repeated it thousands of times, like a haywire metronome that had lost its beat.
  • If she wanted to hang on to the shreds of her professional reputation she'd better start by controlling her haywire emotions.
  • The figure looked familiar, but his thinking was too haywire to allow recognition for a moment or two.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • My computer has gone haywire again.
  • And consider buying the same set-up as a friend so you have some one to lean on when things go haywire.
  • Everything would go haywire if he saw her.
  • If something goes haywire, it should be fairly easy to isolate the offending software.
  • Until recently geophysicists thought that at this low point the magnetic field would also go haywire.
  • When compression software really goes haywire, you can lose everything on your hard disk.
  • With khaki behind the counter, the prices went haywire.
go haywire informal to start working in completely the wrong way:  My computer’s gone haywire.
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