词组 | flash |
释义 | flash [flashed, flashed, flashing] flash around 1. flash your money around/about to spend a lot of money in a way that is very noticeable, because you want other people to know that you have a lot and admire you: ▪ Eddie's always enjoyed flashing his money around - expensive cars, clothes, that sort of thing. 2. flash sth around/about to show people that you have something valuable, because you are very proud of it and want them to admire it: ▪ If you have jewellery with you don't go flashing it around - there are a lot of thieves in this part of town. flash back to flash back to sth/sb if your mind or thoughts flash back to a time, event, or person in your past, you suddenly think of them or remember them: ▪ Isabel's thoughts flashed back to Luke and the night they'd spend in San Remo. ▪ His mind flashed back forty years to what his father had once told him. flashback n C when you suddenly have a clear picture in your mind of something that happened to you in the past, often something unpleasant + to ▪ Rachel, 25, still has vivid flashbacks to the day when she was attacked. flashback n C,U a scene in a film. play, or book, which shows or describes something that happened in the past, or the method of telling a story in this way: ▪ In a series of flashbacks we follow the sisters through their teenage years. in flashback ▪ In `The English Patient', a lot of the story is told in flashback. flash on flash on sth AmE to suddenly remember something or have a new idea: ▪ When Maurice starts talking about caribou, I immediately flash on Alaska. ▪ It was then that I flashed on the idea of spending Easter in Hawaii. flash out flash out sth not passive if someone's eyes or looks flash out a feeling or message, they suddenly express it: ▪ Glover's eyes flashed out the clear message that he didn't believe what she had said. |
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