| 释义 |
flat
adjective- without money, broke AFGHANISTAN, 1832
A shortening of “flat broke”. - “Well, if I’d had the dough to play on Red Pepper this afternoon, I’d be swimming in good nature,” Dopey said. “Me too. I was flat.” — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 28, 1947
- Book-me, who was doubling with me, said he was flat and I had to pay him off myself. — Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, p. 66, 1952
- But man, I ain’t been working. I’m flat. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 135, 1961
- “Now I ain’t flat,” said the beat-up cat/ “We’re traveling boosters, you know.” — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 55, 1976
- You would have done better to catch some of the other guys in the parking lot. I’m almost flat, buddy. — James Ellroy, Brown’s Requiem, p. 211, 1981
- (of a prison sentence) full, unqualified US
- So the minute the pop comes, one of the guys that was out in front during all this, he offered a ten-flat [ten-year sentence]. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 170, 1972
- So I did the five years flat. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 21, 1972
- Those were the good ole days of the indeterminate sentence. Mayhem’s a flat four now. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 150, 1990
- (used of a bet) unvarying in amount US
- — Jerry L. Patterson, Blackjack, p. 20, 1978
▶ that’s flat; and that’s flat
used for emphasis or for concluding a preceding remark UK, 1598
An early usage (late C16) can be found in act 1, scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1. |