| 释义 |
ˈpush-and-go, n. and a.
Also push and go.
[f. push-: see go n. and v.]
A. n. The ability to develop and prosecute a scheme vigorously (see quots.); enterprise, initiative, ambition.
[1915D. Lloyd George in Hansard Commons 9 Mar. 1277 We are on the look out for a good, strong business man with some go in him who will be able to push the thing through and be at the head of a Central Committee.] 1915Times 10 Mar. 14/5 The Government should..get a business man at the head of the organization. The Government were on the look-out for a good, strong business man with some push and go in him, who would be able to put the thing through. 1916Ld. Fisher Let. 26 Jan. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III. Compan. ii. 1398, I said what was required was ‘Push and Go’! (NOT ‘Wait and See’!). 1959F. M. G. Willson in Polit. Stud. VII. 224 Recruits from business, industry, and trade unions begin with Sir Eric Geddes, one of Lloyd George's men of ‘push and go’..graduating to the Cabinet as the first Minister of Transport in 1919.
B. adj.
a. Ambitious, enterprising, pushing.
1932Kipling Limits & Renewals 80 He is one of the push-and-go type..the flower of the Higher Counter⁓jumpery.
b. Of a motorized toy etc.: having a mechanism that stores and releases the momentum generated by a preliminary push.
1958New Scientist 9 Jan. 15 This novel type of shunting locomotive is a larger-scale version of a child's ‘push-and-go’ toy. 1959Oxf. Mail 21 Jan. 6/3 The soft plastic trains and cars had their wheels removed very promptly and the push-and-go ‘engines’ soon fall out. |