英语词组lick (or knock or whip) someone or something into shape是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

词组	lick (or knock or whip) someone or something into shape
释义	lick (or knock or whip) someone or something into shape act forcefully to bring someone or something into a fitter, more efficient, or better-organized state. ☞ This expression originally referred to the belief, expressed in some early bestiaries, that bear cubs were born as formless lumps and were literally licked into shape by their mother. A bestiary was a treatise about different types of animal, popular especially in medieval times.
随便看	in all your puff in a manner of speaking in a minor key in an interesting condition in a nutshell in a pig's eye in a pig's eye in apple-pie order in apple-pie order in a rut in a smoke-filled room in a smoke-filled room in a snap in a state of nature in a state of nature in a stew in a trice in a twinkling in a twinkling (or the twinkling of an eye) in a wink in a world of your own in bad with in bed with in bits in black and white

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