词组 | hole |
释义 | hole1 a small dingy place, especially a business or, in the USA, a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally. 2 an automatic cash dispenser installed in the outside wall of a bank. ☞ The image is of a ship with a hole or holes in its hull below the surface of the water, which will inevitably lead to its sinking.
☞ This figurative use of hole has been in use since the mid 18th century (compare with dig yourself into a hole atdig). The British politician Denis Healey described the first law of politics as 'when you are in a hole, stop digging'. ☞ The expression is a translation of Yiddish ich darf es vi a loch in kop 'I need it like a hole in the head'. |
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