| 单词 | wayside |
| 释义 | wayside (weɪsaɪd ) Word forms: waysides 1. countable noun The wayside is the side of the road. [literary] ...groups of men playing cards by lamplight at the wayside. ...a wayside drinking fountain. 2. to fall by the wayside phrase If a person or plan falls by the wayside, they fail or stop before they complete what they set out to do. Amateurs fall by the wayside when the going gets tough. A business lunch doesn't mean you have to let your healthy lifestyle fall by the wayside. Idioms: fall by the wayside to fail in something you were doing and give up trying to achieve success in it The average player's lifespan at the top is five years. You either play well, deal with the pressure, or you fall by the wayside. if an activity has fallen by the wayside, people have stopped doing it and forgotten about it Each year our birthday parties grow more and more polite. We still have a birthday cake and give presents, but dancing seems to have fallen by the wayside. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: leave by the wayside A whole generation of experienced, ambitious politicians had been left by the wayside. Times, Sunday Times Left by the wayside, it thrives on neglect. The Times Literary Supplement But how many supporters has he left by the wayside? Times, Sunday Times It doesn't offer anything to those left by the wayside. Times, Sunday Times Predicted aspects of the revolution were left by the wayside or modified in the face of an emerging reality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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