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词组 Horlicks
释义 Horlicks
noun
a mess UK
Originally, upper-class society usage of a brand name; Horlicks is a malted food drink. Usage here is probably inspired by the salacious possibilities of the separated syllables “whore licks” and a vague assonance to “bollocks” as in “make a bollocks of” (to mess up).
  • [M]ake a Horlicks of it. — Ann Barr and Peter York, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, p. 158, 1982
  • I’m sorry I made such a complete horlicks of the competition. — Mark Durden-Smith, Rise, 26 November 2002
  • Its contents were accurate but because its sources had not been made clear, it made it “a complete Horlicks,” he [Foreign Secretary Jack Straw] said. — The Independent, 25 June 2003
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