单词 | coast to coast |
释义 | > as lemmas(from) coast to coast d. (from) coast to coast, across an entire country or continent, nationwide; used esp. with reference to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > [phrase] > across a country or continent (from) coast to coast1850 society > travel > [adjective] > across entire country (from) coast to coast1911 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxv. 92 And then I know the mist is drawn A lucid veil from coast to coast . View more context for this quotation 1911 Chicago Daily News 23 Sept. 1/1 Aviator Robert G. Fowler, coast to coast aviator. 1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 35 Why, I wouldn't be surprised if by spring I wasn't tuning up again for a coast-to-coast tour. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt viii. 112 Mr. Frink was known from Coast to Coast as ‘Chum’. 1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 61 A coast-to-coast hitch-up. 1960 News Chron. 25 Feb. 6/8 It was made into a coast-to-coast TV show in America. < as lemmas |
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