| 单词 | sunny side |
| 释义 | sunny sideSEE SYNONYMS FOR sunny side ON THESAURUS.COM nounthe part upon which sunlight falls: the sunny side of the house. a pleasant or hopeful aspect or part: the sunny side of life. some age less than one specified: You're still on the sunny side of thirty. Origin of sunny sideFirst recorded in 1825–35 Words nearby sunny sideSunna, Sunni, sunnies, Sunnite, sunny, sunny side, sunny-side up, Sunnyvale, sun pan, sun parlor, sun pillar Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sunny side
British Dictionary definitions for sunny sidesunny side nounthe cheerful aspect or point of viewlook on the sunny side of things on the sunny side of informal younger than (a specified age) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with sunny sidesunny side The pleasant or cheerful aspect of something, as in Beth always sees the sunny side of events like graduations. This idiom alludes to the area on which sunlight falls. [First half of 1800s] on the sunny side of. At an age less than, younger than, as in He's still on the sunny side of forty. [Second half of 1800s] sunny-side up. Fried so that the yolk remains intact and uppermost, as in I ordered my eggs sunny-side up and you brought me scrambled eggs. This expression transfers the appearance of the sun to that of an egg yolk. [c. 1900] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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