| 释义 |
squeal
verb- to inform on someone; to betray someone US, 1846
- “I was listenin’ to the radio,” Crazy hissed, “and you squealed on Benny!” — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 272, 1947
- Charles Becker was executed in Sing Sing for complicity in the murder of Herman Rosenthal, a big-time gambler who squealed to District Attorney Whitman about the tie-up between police and the crime syndicate. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 64, 1948
- James Castle called him a very conceited guy, and one of Stabile’s lousy friends went and squealed on him to Stabile. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 170, 1951
- Why didn’t he tell his jailers about this? He was an ex-con. No con-wise con squeals. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 4 (II), 4 August 1957
- That you don’t have to suck up to me. I won’t squeal. — Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers, p. 134, 1966
- It’s reprehensible to squeal on your own flesh and blood, but it’s for his own good. — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986
- from a standstill, to accelerate a car suddenly, squealing the tyres on the road US, 1951
- — Newsweek, p. 28, 8 October 1951
|