英语词汇“deep end”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. deep end: the end of a swimming-pool at which the water is deepest; so in colloquial figurative phrase to go (in) off the deep end, etc.: to give way to emotion or anger; to ‘let oneself go’.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > swimming > [noun] > swimming pool > parts of

deep end1921

shallow end1924

1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 853/3 Saint-Saëns rarely, if ever, takes any risks; he never, to use the slang of the moment, ‘went in off the deep end’.

1922 C. E. M. Joad Highbrows vi. 186 She passed her life metaphorically at the end of a diving-board, ready at the slightest provocation to go in at the deep end.

1923 Weekly Dispatch 21 Jan. 5 Mr. Nicholas Hannen..plays the second fiddling husband admirably, except when, once or twice, he goes off the deep end a trifle too explosively.

1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. iv. 151 Would it not be more in the mode, really dramatic—if one ‘went over the deep end,' as they said, just once?

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 115 A very common phrase since the war is to go (in) off the deep end, an expression evidently taken from the deep end of a swimming-bath where the diving board is.

1934 F. W. Crofts 12.30 from Croydon vii. 84 Yes, I've been. And found the old boy brimming over with wrath against you. And when he heard I was coming on the same job he fairly went off the deep end.

1963 T. Parker Unknown Citizen iii. 88 I'm not going to do what I've done before, go off the deep end, nothing like that.

1966 G. Greene Comedians i. iv. 113 Mr Smith trundled to the deep-end before he emerged.

1970 V. Gielgud Candle-holders vii. 62 Simon Astley was too much like the instructor in a swimming-bath, who throws you in at the deep end.

单词	deep end
释义	> as lemmas deep end d. deep end: the end of a swimming-pool at which the water is deepest; so in colloquial figurative phrase to go (in) off the deep end, etc.: to give way to emotion or anger; to ‘let oneself go’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > swimming > [noun] > swimming pool > parts of deep end1921 shallow end1924 1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 853/3 Saint-Saëns rarely, if ever, takes any risks; he never, to use the slang of the moment, ‘went in off the deep end’. 1922 C. E. M. Joad Highbrows vi. 186 She passed her life metaphorically at the end of a diving-board, ready at the slightest provocation to go in at the deep end. 1923 Weekly Dispatch 21 Jan. 5 Mr. Nicholas Hannen..plays the second fiddling husband admirably, except when, once or twice, he goes off the deep end a trifle too explosively. 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. iv. 151 Would it not be more in the mode, really dramatic—if one ‘went over the deep end,' as they said, just once? 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 115 A very common phrase since the war is to go (in) off the deep end, an expression evidently taken from the deep end of a swimming-bath where the diving board is. 1934 F. W. Crofts 12.30 from Croydon vii. 84 Yes, I've been. And found the old boy brimming over with wrath against you. And when he heard I was coming on the same job he fairly went off the deep end. 1963 T. Parker Unknown Citizen iii. 88 I'm not going to do what I've done before, go off the deep end, nothing like that. 1966 G. Greene Comedians i. iv. 113 Mr Smith trundled to the deep-end before he emerged. 1970 V. Gielgud Candle-holders vii. 62 Simon Astley was too much like the instructor in a swimming-bath, who throws you in at the deep end. extracted from deepadj. < as lemmas
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