词组 | mickey mouse |
释义 | mickey mouse Theme: DRUGS - LSD n. a bit of blotter impregnated with LSD with a picture of the Walt Disney Company's Mickey Mouse on it.How much is the mickey mouse?The mickey mouse is more than you want to pay. Theme: NONSENSE n. nonsense; something trivial. (From the world-famous mouse character by the same name, owned by The Walt Disney Company.)This is just a lot of mickey mouse.This mickey mouse is wasting my time. Theme: POLICE n. a police officer. (Streets.)Mickey mouse is hanging around asking about you.Tell mickey mouse he knows where to find me. Theme: WASTE - TIME mod. trivial; time wasting; lousy.I want out of this mickey mouse place.No more mickey mouse questions if I agree to stay? Mickey Mouse 1. adjective 1 inferior, trivial, cheap. Originally coined to describe inferior dance music, then given a broader sense US, 1947. 2 outmoded, old-fashioned or unnecessarily conventional US, 1971. 3 excellent. Rhyming slang for GROUSE AUSTRALIA, 1973 2. noun 1 a house. Rhyming slang UK, 1960. 2 a Liverpudlian. Rhyming slang for SCOUSE, no doubt informed by the use of 'Mickey Mouse' to mean 'inferior'. Noted in mocking use among London football supporters UK, 1992. 3 Famous Grouse™ whisky. Glasgow rhyming slang UK: SCOTLAND, 1988. 4 a wrist watch. From the watches with the face of Mickey Mouse first popular in the 1930s US, 1959. 5 a variety of MDMA, the recreational drug best known as ecstasy, identified by the embossed motif UK, 2002. 6 in American casinos, a $2.50 chip US, 1985. 7 an ultra-shortwave radar used for aircraft spotting. From a distance, the apparatus may be said to resemble a mouse US, 1947 mickey mouse1. noun, slang Something that is trivial or insignificant. All I ever do at this job is a lot of mickey mouse. 2. noun, slang A police officer. You hear those sirens? Mickey mouse is getting closer—we need to move it. 3. noun, slang A small piece of paper containing LSD and imprinted with an image of Mickey Mouse. Got any mickey mouse I can buy? 4. adjective, slang Trivial or insignificant. She needs to get a real job instead of wasting time with this mickey mouse internship. mickey mouse1. n. nonsense; something trivial. (From the world-famous mouse character by the same name, owned by The Walt Disney Company.) This is just a lot of mickey mouse. 2. mod. trivial; time wasting; lousy. I want out of this mickey mouse place. 3. n. a police officer. (Streets.) Mickey mouse is hanging around asking about you. 4. n. a bit of blotter impregnated with LSD with a picture of The Walt Disney Company’s Mickey Mouse on it. (Drugs.) How much is the mickey mouse? mickey mouseTrivial, unimportant, petty. The term, sometimes capitalized (Mickey Mouse), alludes to the cartoon character appearing in Walt Disney films which by the mid-1930s had become childish and silly. It acquired widespread use during World War II, when soldiers used it to describe absurd regulations and petty discipline, and thereafter was applied to almost anything. Studs Terkel used it in American Dreams (1979), “We got a Mickey Mouse educational system that doesn’t teach us . . . how the government works.” |
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