词组 | pop the question |
释义 | Idiom pop the question Theme: MARRIAGE to ask someone to marry you. (Informal.)I was surprised when he popped the question.I've been waiting for years for someone to pop the question. Slang pop the question Theme: NUPTIALS tr. [for a man] to ask a woman to marry him. (Could also be used by a woman asking a man.)She waited for years for him to pop the question.Finally she popped the question. Idiom pop the question informal to ask someone to marry you.So we were having dinner in this Italian restaurant and that's when he popped the question.Do you think he's going to pop the question then, Kath? pop the questionTo ask someone to marry one. I'm planning on popping the question just before the fireworks start. He popped the question in a text message? That's the worst proposal I've ever heard of. pop the question[for a man] to ask a woman to marry him. (Could also be used by a woman asking a man.) She waited for years for him to pop the question. Finally she popped the question. pop the questionPropose marriage, as in He picked Valentine's Day to pop the question. [Early 1700s] pop the questionINFORMALIf you pop the question, you ask someone to marry you. Stuart got serious quickly and popped the question six months later. pop the questionpropose marriage. British informalpop the ˈquestion(informal) ask somebody to marry you: Where were you when he popped the question?pop the question tv. [for a man] to ask a woman to marry him. (Could also be used by a woman asking a man.) She waited for years for him to pop the question. pop the questionInformal To propose marriage. pop the question, toTo propose marriage. The transfer of pop, meaning “to explode,” to the idea of blurting out a proposal, seems like a slangy modernism but actually dates from the eighteenth century. Samuel Richardson used it in his novel Sir Charles Grandison (1753): “Afraid he would now, and now and now, pop the question; which he had not the courage to put.” |
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