| 释义 |
blind
adjective- an intensifier, a euphemism for “bloody” or “bleeding” UK
- If you don’t watch it, Monty, he said to himself, you’ll be stone blind raving paralytic drunk. — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 120, 1959
- very drunk UK, 1630
- Many a night we put on the whole floor show, chorus and all, for a party of six or eight, and they were usually too blind to see it. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 84, 1946
- But you–being a man–don’t care if the boys get blind. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 101, 1949
- [W]e were more than pretty well loopoed–we were blind. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 190, 1965
- highly drug-intoxicated US
From an earlier alcohol sense. - Later, they entered the movie house blind and sat down upstairs. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 234, 1952
- (used of a car) stripped of headlights US
- They are all, as Tom Wolfe has written, “nude and blind,” because they’ve been stripped of chrome and their headlights are gone. — San Francisco Chronicle (from New York Times), p. 70, 2 September 1977
- (used of a bet) placed before seeing the cards being bet on US
- — Irwin Steig, Common Sense in Poker, p. 181, 1963
- uncirmcumcised US, 1925
- nasty, cruel SOUTH AFRICA
- Bru, that’s a blind move. You scaled [stole] Jay’s Britney Spears poster. — Surfrikan Slang, 2004
▶ like blind cobbler’s thumbs
describes thickly swollen nipples UK- Her nipples were huge and pierced, genuinely like the “blind cobbler’s thumbs” to which stag comics always referred. — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 104, 2001
▶ not take a blind bit of notice
to utterly ignore or disregard someone or something, to be oblivious to someone or something UK, 1961 |