| 释义 |
shat
verb▶ shat along on my uppers
to have fallen on hard times CANADA- In Nova Scotia, when someone says, in response to “how are you?” “I’m just shatting along on my uppers,” he means “hanging, barely, on the edge of the ledge or table, by my upper teeth.” — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 99, 1999
▶ shat it
to have been frightened into giving up UK
A variation in the past tense of SHIT IT[Stephen] Hawking, it was rumoured, had considered a book on the subject [“Junkie Logic”], but shat it when he decided he wasn’t sure he could pull it off. — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 14, 2000 |