单词 | among the missing |
释义 | > as lemmasamong the missing With plural agreement. Usually with the. Missing people or objects as a class. Originally and chiefly in among the missing (U.S. colloquial): absent, away from home. ΚΠ 1832 New-Eng. Mag. Mar. 268 There were two or three poets..that figured conspicuously in the first edition..now among the missing in this second edition. 1836 Hill's Yankee Story Teller's Own Bk. 32 The chap was among the missing. He had pulled foot for Baltimore. 1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. i. 11 If a person inquires if you are to home, the servant is directed to say, no, if you don't want to be seen, and choose to be among the missing. 1859 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 273 There comes old David for my militia fine. I don't want to see him, and think I will be among the missing. 1884 Manch. Examiner 9 Aug. 5/1 Supposing the scuttlers..had not bungled in the business, the ship would have been among the missing. 1918 W. Owen Let. 8 Oct. (1967) 581 Must now write to hosts of parents of Missing, etc. 1976 A. Eden Another World ix. 102 The missing were those of whose fate in action no survivor could give any first-hand details. 1991 Vis à Vis May 72/1 Pacino is both amused and alarmed by the widespread conceit that he had spent most of the 1980s among the missing. < as lemmas |
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