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词组 neither use nor ornament
释义 neither use nor ornament
adjective
applied to a useless person or thing UK, 1978
Contemptuous. Not noted until 1978, however “[D]idn’t appear to me to be either useful or ornamental[.]”, recorded in 1942, implies an earlier use.
  • Just baseball boots, and they’re neither use nor ornament in weather like this. — Val McDermid, The Distant Echo, p. 52, 2003
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