请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 on wheels
释义

on wheels

English

Prepositional phrase

on wheels

  1. (slang, postpositive, figurative) To a large degree, excessively.
    Coordinate term: on steroids
    • 2005, Joy Fielding, Puppet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 181:
      "That prosecutor seems like a real bitch on wheels," Amanda says [] .
  2. (figurative) Mobile; able to be moved; especially, synonym of on the move.
    • 1881, Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, chapter V:
      The order was written. In less than ten days everything was "on wheels" and the whole body of these Sioux [was] on the move to the country they had indicated, and the Secretary of the Interior says, naively, in his report for 1868, "The Indians were found to be quite determined to move westward, and the promise of the government in that respect was faithfully kept."
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, wheels. (Having wheels affixed to the bottom, and so transportable; synonym of wheeled).

Anagrams

  • news hole, newshole
随便看

 

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法,是外语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/8/7 2:30:34