a long weight

An imaginary object that someone is instructed to request from someone else, who then proceeds to leave them waiting indefinitely while it is being "located." A practical joke usually played on a new member of a group or organization. A: "The other guys told me to go ask the foreman for a long weight, and he just left me waiting for nearly an hour before I finally gave up!" B: "Gosh, did you really not underweight that they were pulling your leg?"

词组	a long weight
释义	a long weight a long weight An imaginary object that someone is instructed to request from someone else, who then proceeds to leave them waiting indefinitely while it is being "located." A practical joke usually played on a new member of a group or organization. A: "The other guys told me to go ask the foreman for a long weight, and he just left me waiting for nearly an hour before I finally gave up!" B: "Gosh, did you really not underweight that they were pulling your leg?" See also: long, weight Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: a long stand accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey accompany on a journey bring (someone or something) into contact with (someone or something) a stranger to (someone or something) be out of (one's) league be out of somebody's league be in bad with (someone) (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time bargain
随便看	For pity’s sake! for practical purposes for quids for real for reasons best known to himself for rent for safekeeping go hat in hand to someone go haywire go haywire, to go head to head go hell for leather go hog wild go hog-wild go hog wild, to go home in a box go home to mama go hot and cold go hot and cold (all over) go hungry go in goin go in a body go in a different direction go in and out