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词组 doddle
释义 doddle
noun
an objective achieved with ease; in sport, an easy win or a simple victory UK, 1937
Probably from “dawdle” or “toddle”, implying a “walk-over”, which is consistent with its earliest use in racing circles, but possibly from Scottish “doddle”, a lump of homemade toffee (hence something desirable and easily acquired). It is recorded with the meaning “money very easily obtained” in Scotland in 1934.
  • [O]nly too easy in fact it was a doddle[.] — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 111, 1958
  • It’s an open nick [prison]. Be a doddle. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 5, 1984
  • I remember thinking that it would be a doddle–being a mum, I mean. — Mary Hooper, (megan)2, p. 80, 1999
  • Bloody hell–you posh birds are a doddle to sucker. — Colin Butts, Is Harry Still on the Boat?, p. 31, 2003
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