单词 | the stuff of legend |
释义 | the stuff of legendidiomatic phrase variants or less commonly the stuff of legends 1 : someone or something that is told about in legend Dragons are still the stuff of legend. But in Slovenia, a bizarre, cave-dwelling … salamander serves as a worthy, real-life stand-in. 2 : someone or something that is very famous or memorable Earlier that summer, Saito faced off with Tanaka in Japan's national high school championships, which are at least the equivalent of March Madness in the United States. Their battles were the stuff of legend, but Saito's team won and he struck out Tanaka for the final out of the deciding game. For those of us who ran around in it, the blizzard of '78 was the stuff of legend, an unrelenting force of nature that smacked Boston upside the head for about a week. The contest between ruling authorities and peasants over whether or not martyrs would be commemorated could itself become the stuff of legends. |
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