| 单词 | food fight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfood fight food fight n. originally and chiefly North American an instance of people (usually children or students) throwing food at one another; also figurative. ΚΠ 1924 S. F. Batchelder Bits of Harvard Hist. 144 The affair began by a food-fight between the freshmen and the sophomores at Sunday evening Commons in 1819: ‘When Nathan threw a piece of bread And hit Abijah on the head, [etc.].’ 1952 E. R. Clapp Use of Resources in Educ. i. i. 13 The lunchroom..was a disorderly place, the children..frequently engaging in noisy ‘food fights’. 1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 20/3 Last year, a vast food fight erupted over the Jeffs' policy of charging admission..for the..ceremony. 2007 Prince George (Brit. Columbia) Citizen (Nexis) 14 June 7 It started as most food fights do, with one student hurling part of their lunch at an unsuspecting target. < as lemmas |
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