英语词组avoid something like the plague是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

Idiom

avoid something like the plagueavoid (someone/something) like the plague

to keep far away from someone or something.

When he was in high school, he avoided girls like the plague.

Usage notes: usually said about someone or something you fear or do not like

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of the plague (= a disease that spreads quickly and kills great numbers of people)

avoid (someone or something) like the plague

To consciously stay away from someone or something. I didn't do my homework my last night, so I'm avoiding my teacher like the plague. My dog is terrified of cats and avoids them like the plague.

avoid someone or something like the plague

Fig. to ignore or keep away from someone or something totally. What's wrong with Bob? Everyone avoids him like the plague. I don't like opera. I avoid it like the plague.

avoid like the plague

Evade or elude at any cost, shun. For example, Since Bob was taken into police custody, his friends have been avoiding him and his family like the plague . This seemingly modern expression dates from the Latin of the early Middle Ages, when Saint Jerome (a.d. 345-420) wrote, "Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business." The plague, a deadly infectious disease in his day, has been largely wiped out, but the term remains current.

avoid somebody/something like the ˈplague

(informal) avoid somebody/something completely: It was the sort of restaurant that I would normally have avoided like the plague.

A plague is an infectious disease that kills a lot of people.

词组	avoid something like the plague
释义	Idiom avoid something like the plagueavoid (someone/something) like the plague to keep far away from someone or something. When he was in high school, he avoided girls like the plague. Usage notes: usually said about someone or something you fear or do not like Etymology: based on the literal meaning of the plague (= a disease that spreads quickly and kills great numbers of people) (redirected from avoid something like the plague) avoid (someone or something) like the plague To consciously stay away from someone or something. I didn't do my homework my last night, so I'm avoiding my teacher like the plague. My dog is terrified of cats and avoids them like the plague. avoid someone or something like the plague Fig. to ignore or keep away from someone or something totally. What's wrong with Bob? Everyone avoids him like the plague. I don't like opera. I avoid it like the plague. avoid like the plague Evade or elude at any cost, shun. For example, Since Bob was taken into police custody, his friends have been avoiding him and his family like the plague . This seemingly modern expression dates from the Latin of the early Middle Ages, when Saint Jerome (a.d. 345-420) wrote, "Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business." The plague, a deadly infectious disease in his day, has been largely wiped out, but the term remains current. avoid somebody/something like the ˈplague (informal) avoid somebody/something completely: It was the sort of restaurant that I would normally have avoided like the plague. A plague is an infectious disease that kills a lot of people.
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