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词组 chapel hat pegs
释义 chapel hat pegs
noun
used for comparisons with things that are exaggeratedly conspicuous or obvious when not normally so UK, 1984
  • Her poor fingers were stiff as chapel hat-pegs already. — Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus, p. 222, 1986
  • And my nipples have grown enormous. Men stare at them in the street. As Yorkshire folk would say, they stick out like chapel hat pegs. — Peter Godwin and Joanna Coles, The Three of Us, p. 113, 2000
  • [T]heir eyes weren’t out on stalks like chapel hat-pegs, so I began to realize I was doing something wrong. — A Alvarez, Feeding the Rat, p. 27, 2001
  • Pat’s eyes bugged out like chapel hat pegs, but she didn’t dare say anything[.] — Sonya Fitzpatrick, What the Animals Tell Me, p. 13, 2003
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