| 单词 | does your mother know you're out? |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdoes your mother know you're out? a. does your mother know you're out? and variants: a jeering or condescending question addressed to a person whose behaviour is regarded as juvenile or inappropriate. ΚΠ 1837 J. S. Coyne Queer Subj. i. iv. 10 Who are you? does your mother know you're out? 1842 R. H. Barham Misadventures Margate in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 156 Sir, does your mother know that you are out? 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table in Wks. (1892) III. 323 The saucy question, ‘Does your mother know you're out?’ was the very same that Horace addressed to the bore who attacked him in the Via Sacra. 1951 N. Marsh Opening Night i. 23 ‘Does yer mother know you're aht?’ he asked ironically... She was oppressed with renewed loneliness and fear. 1975 ‘C. Aird’ Slight Mourning vii. 65 ‘Theft during the hours of darkness,’ intoned Leeyes gloomily. ‘Does his mother know he's out?’ < as lemmas |
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