| 单词 | down-and-dirty |
| 释义 | down-and-dirty[ doun-uhn-dur-tee ] / ˈdaʊn ənˈdɜr ti / adjective Informal.unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign. earthy; funky. Origin of down-and-dirtyFirst recorded in 1985–90 Words nearby down-and-dirtyDowland, dowlas, dowly, Dow metal, down, down-and-dirty, down-and-out, down-at-the-heels, down-ballot, downbeat, down-bow Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for down-and-dirtydown and dirty adjective (down-and-dirty when prenominal) informal, mainly USruthlessly competitive or underhandif Bush gets down and dirty the Governor will give as good as he gets uninhibited; frank 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 down-and-dirtydown and dirty Vicious, not governed by rules of decency, as in The candidates are getting down and dirty early in the campaign. [Slang; early 1980s] Very earthy, uninhibitedly sexual. For example, “L.A. club people rarely get down and dirty on a dance floor” (The New Yorker, May 21, 1990). [Late 1980s] 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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