truck

Related to truck: Turck

could drive a truck through (something)

Could easily show or exploit the flaws in something. Primarily heard in US. Oh please, I could drive a truck through that lawyer's incoherent argument, and I plan to do just that in court tomorrow.

fall off a truck

Of goods or merchandise, to be acquired by illegal or dubious means; to come into (someone's) possession without being paid for. Danny says he has several laptops and smartphones he wants to sell for cheap—sounds like they fell off a truck to me.

fall off the back of a truck

fall off the cabbage truck

To be gullible, naïve, or unsophisticated. The subject is often a person from a rural or rustic background. Mary has no idea about how to act in polite society, always behaving as if she just fell off the cabbage truck.

fall off the turnip truck

gut truck

slang A food truck, a truck or van outfitted to be a mobile kitchen used to prepare and sell food at various locations. Everyone in the office likes to get food from the gut truck that parks outside at lunchtime, but I don't really care for anything they serve. There's a gut truck that always comes around to the dorms and frats in the evening to sell munchies to the stoned college students.

have no truck with (someone or something)

To not be involved with someone or something. Oh, I have no truck with him anymore, not since our fight.

See also: have, no, truck

have truck with

To work well with or associate with someone. The phrase is most commonly used in the negative ("have no truck with") to describe someone or something that will not work together. Let me call that office—I used to work there, so I have truck with them. That lowlife has no truck with us, so tell him not to come around here anymore.

keep on trucking

A phrase of encouragement that one keep going or persisting with something, Come on, the project is not a total failure—keep on trucking! Keep on trucking, honey—tomorrow's another day.

See also: keep, on, truck

off the back of a truck

Likely by illegal or dubious means. Said of the way something has been gotten. Primarily heard in US, Australia. A: "Jake's been peddling a bunch of flat screens for a great price." A: "He probably got them off the back of a truck. I wouldn't go for them, if I were you." Danny says he has several laptops and smartphones he wants to sell for cheap—sounds like they fell off the back of a truck to me.

truck in

1. To arrive by truck. Soldiers came trucking in to help deal with the crisis.

2. To transport someone or something in(to something or some place) by truck. A noun or pronoun is used between "truck" and "in." There was no potable water in the cabin, so we had to truck in a month's worth of bottled water. They trucked dozens of laborers in to help build the new rig as quickly as possible.

truck out

1. To leave by truck. Dozens of workers trucked out to the fields to begin the harvest season.

2. To transport someone or something out (of something or some place) by truck. A noun or pronoun is used between "truck" and "out." The mining company has so far trucked out nearly 500 tons of earth and stone from the new excavation site. They trucked us out to the crash site to investigate the incident.

want no truck with (someone or something)

To want to avoid someone or something. I hope Ned won't be there—I want no truck with him since our fight.

have no truck with something

Rur. to have nothing to do with something. After the way Mary treated me, I'll have no truck with her. We only show good, wholesome movies at this theater. We have no truck with most of that Hollywood trash.

See also: have, no, truck

just fell off the turnip truck

Rur. ignorant; unsophisticated. He stood there gawking at the buildings in town like he just fell off the turnip truck. My cousin acts like she just fell off the turnip truck.

See also: fell, just, off, truck, turnip

keep on trucking

Inf. to continue to do well; to continue to try. Just keep on trucking, man. All I can do is keep on trucking.

See also: keep, on, truck

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

have no truck with

Have no dealings with, as in The doctor said he wanted no truck with midwives. This term was first recorded in 1868, although truck in the sense of "dealings" dates from the early 1600s.

See also: have, no, truck

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

can drive a truck through something

AMERICAN, INFORMAL

If you can drive a truck through something such as an agreement, contract or argument, it has serious weaknesses or faults. In my view, Miller's fiscal plan is so thin you could drive a truck through it. Note: You can also say that something has weaknesses big enough to drive a truck through. Clearly, there were loopholes in the system big enough to drive a truck through.

See also: can, drive, something, through, truck

have no truck with something/someone

COMMON If you have no truck with something or someone, you disapprove of them and refuse to become involved with them. As an American, she had no truck with the formality of English life. Great efforts were made to get him on the side of the rebels. He had no truck with them. Note: The verbs want and hold are sometimes used instead of have. Most traditional doctors hold no truck with these ideas. Note: `Truck' is an old term which referred to trading goods by bartering. `To have no truck with someone' literally means to have no dealings with them.

See also: have, no, someone, something, truck

Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

have (or want) no truck with

1 avoid dealing or being associated with. 2 be unsympathetic or opposed to.

The earliest sense of truck was ‘trading by the exchange of commodities’ (from French troquer , meaning ‘barter’), from which developed the sense ‘communication or dealings’.

See also: have, no, truck

keep on trucking

used as an encouragement to keep going, not to give up. informal

2004 Something Awful His most prized possession is a Denny 's dinner plate which was signed by Gene Roddenberry reading, ‘Dear Harlan, keep on trucking, some day you'll get the hang of this whole writing thing, sincerely Gene.’

See also: keep, on, truck

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

have/want no ˈtruck with somebody/something

(British English) not want to deal with or be involved with somebody/something: He’ll have no truck with anyone on the political left.

See also: have, no, somebody, something, truck, want

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

Keep on trucking

sent. Keep doing what you are doing.; Keep taking care of business. Keep on trucking. Things’ll get better.

See also: keep, on, truck

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

fall off the cabbage truck

To be a nai¨ve newcomer. Imagine a flatbed farm wagon laden with fresh produce arriving in a city. Sliding off the back was a country bumpkin whose brain, or so smug sophisticated urbanites would agree, contained no more clue about worldly ways than a head of cabbage that might roll off the vehicle. A similar expression was to say that someone “just got off the boat,” a reference to immigration in the days of steamship passage when new arrivals were thoroughly ignorant of New World customs. Among the snappy denials to being called a hick or greenhorn were “I wasn't born yesterday” or “I might have been born at night, but not last night” or the wonderfully imaginative Midwestern comeback, “Hey, what makes you think I just got off the noon balloon from Rangoon?”

have no truck with

Avoid. “Truck” came from the French woes for “barter.” Originally, if you had no truck with somebody, you refused to trade with him or her. By extension it came to mean you refused to have anything to do with the person.

See also: have, no, truck

Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price

See also:

can drive a truck through something
could drive a truck through (something)
drive a coach and horses through
drive a coach and horses through (something)
drive a coach and horses through something
I wouldn't kick (someone) out of bed for farting
I wouldn't throw (someone) out of bed for farting
blow a hole in
blow a hole in (something)
blow a hole in something

References in periodicals archive

A good rule of thumb when choosing a turret truck is to measure speeds at different elevations and compare mast sway.

Lift truck basics: lift trucks have come a long way since their introduction in the materials handling arena in the 1920s. Today, they are smarter and stronger, and still the indispensable workhorses in our warehouses and distribution centers

Pacific Truck Center is a subsidiary of Pacific Power Products Co., a privately held company based in Ridgefield, Wash.

Business

The ports' truck ban was approved in November 2007 and aims to replace or retrofit the 16,800 short-haul trucks serving the POLA and the POLB with cleaner and newer operating trucks as part of the Clean Truck Program outlined in the Clean Air Action Plan.

Be clean or be gone: pre-'07 trucks to be banned at ports of L.A. and Long Beach; new cargo fee passed to generate $1.6 billion for cleaner port trucks

"Over the past 30 years, our Cleveland plant has served as the foundation for our North American manufacturing operations and has been an integral part of our growth, innovation and leadership," said Roger Nielsen, Daimler Trucks North America CEO and president.

Daimler Trucks Produces Milestone 750,000th Heavy-Duty Truck In North Carolina

in June, Autokid now carries a whole new lineup of light-duty trucks called the Captain Series.

Autokid drives businesses forward with light-duty trucks

"They also get the performance and after-sales service of a new Renault truck with the full support of Renault Trucks and its importers," says Sakou.

How is Renault responding to market demand for used trucks?

Midland Pallet Trucks, a UK-based leader in the supply of handling equipment for UK warehouses, factories and logistics has announced the introduction of a new range of stainless steel apparatus to expand upon an already vast collection of high quality hand pallet trucks.

Midland expands steel pallet truck range

Rivian's truck is now raising the industry bar with the company  (https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28323/the-drive-interview-rivian-automotive-founder-and-ceo-rj-scaringe) CEO R.J.

Tesla Can't Do This: Rivian Trucks Can Charge Each Other

The truck had by then caught fire and he was unable to save his brother.

Electric shock kills sleeping lorry driver

The inauguration was attended by local DAF officials led by Benedict Allen Go, president and CEO of Pioneer Truck Parts and Equipment; and DAF Trucks Netherlands, led by Geert van Genugten, regional sales director for Asia.

DAF showrooms officially open

Truck drivers have been preparing for a class action suit against Daimler Trucks Korea and MAN Truck amp; Bus Korea about various defects found in the trucks the two companies imported, an attorney for the truckers said Thursday.

Daimler, MAN face lawsuit for defective trucks

TRUCK operators under the aegis of the Association of Maritime Truck Operators (AMATO), have kicked against plans by the Lagos State Government to relocate all articulated vehicles to the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (ABAT) Park, citing safety issues that could arise from keeping petroleum tanker trucks together with containerised trucks.

Maritime truck operators reject Lagos ABAT transit park

Two highway police officers and a truck driver were killed early this morning in Hsinchu County when the driver of another truck dozed off and swerved into them, reported Apple Daily.

Trucker dozes off, kills two police and driver in northern Taiwan

UD Trucks Corporation is now planning to introduce their popular new heavy-duty truck model Quester in the Pakistan market for which they have appointed VPL Limited (VPL) as their authorized importer.

UD Trucks Picks VPL as Authorized Importer for 'Quester'

词组	truck
释义	truck Related to truck: Turck could drive a truck through (something) Could easily show or exploit the flaws in something. Primarily heard in US. Oh please, I could drive a truck through that lawyer's incoherent argument, and I plan to do just that in court tomorrow. See also: could, drive, through, truck fall off a truck Of goods or merchandise, to be acquired by illegal or dubious means; to come into (someone's) possession without being paid for. Danny says he has several laptops and smartphones he wants to sell for cheap—sounds like they fell off a truck to me. See also: fall, off, truck fall off the back of a truck Of goods or merchandise, to be acquired by illegal or dubious means; to come into (someone's) possession without being paid for. Danny says he has several laptops and smartphones he wants to sell for cheap—sounds like they fell off the back of a truck to me. See also: back, fall, of, off, truck fall off the cabbage truck To be gullible, naïve, or unsophisticated. The subject is often a person from a rural or rustic background. Mary has no idea about how to act in polite society, always behaving as if she just fell off the cabbage truck. See also: cabbage, fall, off, truck fall off the turnip truck To be gullible, naïve, or unsophisticated. The subject is often a person from a rural or rustic background. Mary has no idea about how to act in polite society, always behaving as if she just fell off the turnip truck. See also: fall, off, truck, turnip gut truck slang A food truck, a truck or van outfitted to be a mobile kitchen used to prepare and sell food at various locations. Everyone in the office likes to get food from the gut truck that parks outside at lunchtime, but I don't really care for anything they serve. There's a gut truck that always comes around to the dorms and frats in the evening to sell munchies to the stoned college students. See also: gut, truck have no truck with (someone or something) To not be involved with someone or something. Oh, I have no truck with him anymore, not since our fight. See also: have, no, truck have truck with To work well with or associate with someone. The phrase is most commonly used in the negative ("have no truck with") to describe someone or something that will not work together. Let me call that office—I used to work there, so I have truck with them. That lowlife has no truck with us, so tell him not to come around here anymore. See also: have, truck keep on trucking A phrase of encouragement that one keep going or persisting with something, Come on, the project is not a total failure—keep on trucking! Keep on trucking, honey—tomorrow's another day. See also: keep, on, truck off the back of a truck Likely by illegal or dubious means. Said of the way something has been gotten. Primarily heard in US, Australia. A: "Jake's been peddling a bunch of flat screens for a great price." A: "He probably got them off the back of a truck. I wouldn't go for them, if I were you." Danny says he has several laptops and smartphones he wants to sell for cheap—sounds like they fell off the back of a truck to me. See also: back, of, off, truck truck in 1. To arrive by truck. Soldiers came trucking in to help deal with the crisis. 2. To transport someone or something in(to something or some place) by truck. A noun or pronoun is used between "truck" and "in." There was no potable water in the cabin, so we had to truck in a month's worth of bottled water. They trucked dozens of laborers in to help build the new rig as quickly as possible. See also: truck truck out 1. To leave by truck. Dozens of workers trucked out to the fields to begin the harvest season. 2. To transport someone or something out (of something or some place) by truck. A noun or pronoun is used between "truck" and "out." The mining company has so far trucked out nearly 500 tons of earth and stone from the new excavation site. They trucked us out to the crash site to investigate the incident. See also: out, truck want no truck with (someone or something) To want to avoid someone or something. I hope Ned won't be there—I want no truck with him since our fight. See also: no, truck, want Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. have no truck with something Rur. to have nothing to do with something. After the way Mary treated me, I'll have no truck with her. We only show good, wholesome movies at this theater. We have no truck with most of that Hollywood trash. See also: have, no, truck just fell off the turnip truck Rur. ignorant; unsophisticated. He stood there gawking at the buildings in town like he just fell off the turnip truck. My cousin acts like she just fell off the turnip truck. See also: fell, just, off, truck, turnip keep on trucking Inf. to continue to do well; to continue to try. Just keep on trucking, man. All I can do is keep on trucking. See also: keep, on, truck McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. have no truck with Have no dealings with, as in The doctor said he wanted no truck with midwives. This term was first recorded in 1868, although truck in the sense of "dealings" dates from the early 1600s. See also: have, no, truck The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. can drive a truck through something AMERICAN, INFORMAL If you can drive a truck through something such as an agreement, contract or argument, it has serious weaknesses or faults. In my view, Miller's fiscal plan is so thin you could drive a truck through it. Note: You can also say that something has weaknesses big enough to drive a truck through. Clearly, there were loopholes in the system big enough to drive a truck through. See also: can, drive, something, through, truck have no truck with something/someone COMMON If you have no truck with something or someone, you disapprove of them and refuse to become involved with them. As an American, she had no truck with the formality of English life. Great efforts were made to get him on the side of the rebels. He had no truck with them. Note: The verbs want and hold are sometimes used instead of have. Most traditional doctors hold no truck with these ideas. Note: `Truck' is an old term which referred to trading goods by bartering. `To have no truck with someone' literally means to have no dealings with them. See also: have, no, someone, something, truck Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. have (or want) no truck with 1 avoid dealing or being associated with. 2 be unsympathetic or opposed to. The earliest sense of truck was ‘trading by the exchange of commodities’ (from French troquer , meaning ‘barter’), from which developed the sense ‘communication or dealings’. See also: have, no, truck keep on trucking used as an encouragement to keep going, not to give up. informal 2004 Something Awful His most prized possession is a Denny 's dinner plate which was signed by Gene Roddenberry reading, ‘Dear Harlan, keep on trucking, some day you'll get the hang of this whole writing thing, sincerely Gene.’ See also: keep, on, truck Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary have/want no ˈtruck with somebody/something (British English) not want to deal with or be involved with somebody/something: He’ll have no truck with anyone on the political left. See also: have, no, somebody, something, truck, want Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary Keep on trucking sent. Keep doing what you are doing.; Keep taking care of business. Keep on trucking. Things’ll get better. See also: keep, on, truck McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions fall off the cabbage truck To be a nai¨ve newcomer. Imagine a flatbed farm wagon laden with fresh produce arriving in a city. Sliding off the back was a country bumpkin whose brain, or so smug sophisticated urbanites would agree, contained no more clue about worldly ways than a head of cabbage that might roll off the vehicle. A similar expression was to say that someone “just got off the boat,” a reference to immigration in the days of steamship passage when new arrivals were thoroughly ignorant of New World customs. Among the snappy denials to being called a hick or greenhorn were “I wasn't born yesterday” or “I might have been born at night, but not last night” or the wonderfully imaginative Midwestern comeback, “Hey, what makes you think I just got off the noon balloon from Rangoon?” See also: cabbage, fall, off, truck have no truck with Avoid. “Truck” came from the French woes for “barter.” Originally, if you had no truck with somebody, you refused to trade with him or her. By extension it came to mean you refused to have anything to do with the person. See also: have, no, truck Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price See also: can drive a truck through something could drive a truck through (something) drive a coach and horses through drive a coach and horses through (something) drive a coach and horses through something I wouldn't kick (someone) out of bed for farting I wouldn't throw (someone) out of bed for farting blow a hole in blow a hole in (something) blow a hole in something References in periodicals archive A good rule of thumb when choosing a turret truck is to measure speeds at different elevations and compare mast sway. Lift truck basics: lift trucks have come a long way since their introduction in the materials handling arena in the 1920s. Today, they are smarter and stronger, and still the indispensable workhorses in our warehouses and distribution centers Pacific Truck Center is a subsidiary of Pacific Power Products Co., a privately held company based in Ridgefield, Wash. Business The ports' truck ban was approved in November 2007 and aims to replace or retrofit the 16,800 short-haul trucks serving the POLA and the POLB with cleaner and newer operating trucks as part of the Clean Truck Program outlined in the Clean Air Action Plan. Be clean or be gone: pre-'07 trucks to be banned at ports of L.A. and Long Beach; new cargo fee passed to generate $1.6 billion for cleaner port trucks "Over the past 30 years, our Cleveland plant has served as the foundation for our North American manufacturing operations and has been an integral part of our growth, innovation and leadership," said Roger Nielsen, Daimler Trucks North America CEO and president. Daimler Trucks Produces Milestone 750,000th Heavy-Duty Truck In North Carolina in June, Autokid now carries a whole new lineup of light-duty trucks called the Captain Series. Autokid drives businesses forward with light-duty trucks "They also get the performance and after-sales service of a new Renault truck with the full support of Renault Trucks and its importers," says Sakou. How is Renault responding to market demand for used trucks? Midland Pallet Trucks, a UK-based leader in the supply of handling equipment for UK warehouses, factories and logistics has announced the introduction of a new range of stainless steel apparatus to expand upon an already vast collection of high quality hand pallet trucks. Midland expands steel pallet truck range Rivian's truck is now raising the industry bar with the company  (https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28323/the-drive-interview-rivian-automotive-founder-and-ceo-rj-scaringe) CEO R.J. Tesla Can't Do This: Rivian Trucks Can Charge Each Other The truck had by then caught fire and he was unable to save his brother. Electric shock kills sleeping lorry driver The inauguration was attended by local DAF officials led by Benedict Allen Go, president and CEO of Pioneer Truck Parts and Equipment; and DAF Trucks Netherlands, led by Geert van Genugten, regional sales director for Asia. DAF showrooms officially open Truck drivers have been preparing for a class action suit against Daimler Trucks Korea and MAN Truck amp; Bus Korea about various defects found in the trucks the two companies imported, an attorney for the truckers said Thursday. Daimler, MAN face lawsuit for defective trucks TRUCK operators under the aegis of the Association of Maritime Truck Operators (AMATO), have kicked against plans by the Lagos State Government to relocate all articulated vehicles to the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (ABAT) Park, citing safety issues that could arise from keeping petroleum tanker trucks together with containerised trucks. Maritime truck operators reject Lagos ABAT transit park Two highway police officers and a truck driver were killed early this morning in Hsinchu County when the driver of another truck dozed off and swerved into them, reported Apple Daily. Trucker dozes off, kills two police and driver in northern Taiwan UD Trucks Corporation is now planning to introduce their popular new heavy-duty truck model Quester in the Pakistan market for which they have appointed VPL Limited (VPL) as their authorized importer. UD Trucks Picks VPL as Authorized Importer for 'Quester'
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