| 释义 |
ˈlow-down, n. slang (orig. U.S.).
[f. the adj. or adv.]
The fundamental, though not generally known, facts on (about) a person, situation, etc.; the ‘inside story’.
1915San Francisco Call & Post 2 Dec. 12 (caption) Aw, give us the low down on them, Bill. 1920Collier's 15 May 57/2 He calls me back, and in about twenty minutes I have got the low down on Monsieur Kane Halliday. 1924Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith ix. 184 Listen, Ed, while I slip you the low-down. 1930Punch 5 Feb. 144/1 Our own book, Percival and I have decided, is to be called the Low-down on Taxi-drivers. 1930Ade Let. 19 Dec. (1973) 149 You certainly shattered some of my early idols, although I think I had figured out the low-down on most of them before I read your book. 1935Auden & Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. ii. 34 The Old Man sent for me before I left. Wants me to get the low-down on the Dripping merger. 1939War Illustr. 18 Nov. p. ii/3, I have often smiled in recollecting this bit of ‘low down’ on the exile of Doorn—possibly for the first time here divulged. 1946R. Campbell Talking Bronco 13 To have the low-down from their cross-Fates, Predicting tons of human phosphates Imported here in flesh and bone. 1957N. Micklem Box & Puppets v. 102, I was occasionally able to do him some slight service in return by giving him ‘the low-down’ on theologians about whom he was required to compose orations. 1959G. Jenkins Twist of Sand iv. 73 I'll give the low-down, charts, position, damage and all the rest of it. 1973M. Mackintosh King & Two Queens x. 147 One of his minions will..give me the official low-down on Fisher. Possible police record, etc. |