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词组 read my lips
释义 read my lips

pay attention to what I am saying, for it is the bedrock truth US
A pop phrase embraced in a show of bravado by George Bush when he was running for president of the US in 1988: “Read my lips–no new taxes” and then the butt of endless ridicule when, two years later, he advocated a new tax. Actor Tim Curry named an album that he recorded in 1978 Read My Lips, later explaining to William Safire that he took the phrase to mean “Listen and listen very hard, because I want you to hear what I’ve got to say”.
  • This dramatic use in a formal acceptance speech sealed the phrasal intensifier “read my lips” into the language. — New York Times Magazine, p. 22, 4 September 1988
  • Read my lips (as she mouths the word “no”). — True Romance, 1993
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