| 单词 | dolly mixture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdolly mixture dolly mixture n. a mixture of tiny coloured sweets of various shapes; also transferred, figurative and attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > small sweets hundreds and thousands1894 Jimmy1949 dolly mixture1957 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vi. 167 The ‘dolly-mixtures’ pleasures of a constant diet of odd snippets, of unrelated scrappy facts, each with its sugary little kernel of ‘human interest’. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 166 Other current sweet-shop favourites appear to be the same as thirty years ago, in fact bull's eyes, jelly babies, and dolly mixture have entered schoolchild language as descriptive nouns. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 169 A chap who has got duck's disease is..labelled..dolly mixture (after a species of very small sweet). < as lemmas |
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