| 释义 |
make my day
used as a jocular challenge US
The phrase entered the popular lexicon in 1983 as a line uttered by the Clint Eastwood character “Dirty Harry” Callahan in the film Sudden Impact.- “I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers,” said President Reagan, delighting in a mock-tough line submitted by one of his writers. “Go ahead and make my day.” — New York Times Magazine, p. 10, 7 April 1985
- William Hague squared up to his pro-European rebels yesterday by inviting them, Dirty Harry-style, to “make my day.” — Daily Mail (London), p. 8, 18 October 1999
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