词组 | pull out all the stops |
释义 | ☞ The stops referred to here are those of an organ. Although this is an early 20th-century expression, Matthew Arnold, in the Preface to Essays in Criticism (1865) refers to an attempt on his behalf 'to pull out a few more stops in that…somewhat narrow-toned organ, the modern Englishman'. |
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