| 单词 | for the birds |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(strictly) for the birds b. Originally U.S. Military slang (now colloquial). (strictly) for the birds: not worth serious consideration; trivial, unimportant, worthless. [With the explanation offered in quot. 1957 compare the early variant shit for the birds, although it is possible that the allusion originally intended was less specific.] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless naughteOE unworthc960 nought worthOE unworthya1240 vaina1300 lewd1362 base?1510 to be nothing toc1520 stark naught1528 nothing worth1535 worthilessa1542 draffish1543 baggage1548 dunghill?1555 valureless1563 toyish1572 worthless1573 out (forth) of door (also doors)1574 leaden1577 riff-raff1577 drafty1582 fecklessc1586 dudgeon?1589 nought-worth1589 tenpenny1592 wanwordy?a1595 shotten herring1598 nugatory1603 unvalued1604 priceless1614 unvaluable1615 valuelessa1616 waste1616 trashya1620 draffy1624 stramineous1624 invaluable1640 roly-poly?1645 nugatorious1646 perquisquilian1647 niffling1649 lazy1671 wanworth1724 little wortha1754 flimsy1756 waff1788 null1790 nothingy1801 nothingly1802 twopenny-halfpenny1809 not worth a flaw1810 garbage1817 peanut1836 duffing1839 trash1843 no-account1845 no-count1851 punky1859 rummagy1872 junky1880 skilligalee1883 footle1894 punk1896 wherry-go-nimble1901 junk1908 rinky-dink1913 schlock1916 tripe1927 duff1938 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 expendable1942 (strictly) for the birds1943 tripey1955 schlocky1960 naff1964 dipshit1968 cack1978 1943 Stars & Stripes (Italy ed.) 10 Dec. 2/3 This Rome jaunt is strictly for the birds. And we is the birds. 1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye i. 6 ‘Since 1888 we have been moulding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men.’ Strictly for the birds. 1953 Time 7 Sept. 2/1 Kinsey's book is strictly for the birds. 1957 Amer. Speech 32 240 In 1942, when I entered the U.S. Army..the disparaging term that's for the birds was in common use among officers and enlisted men... The metaphor alludes to birds eating droppings from horses and cattle. 1958 J. Osborne & A. Creighton Epit. for George Dillon ii. 49 ‘You aren't very impressed with Geoffrey..?’ ‘Right. What the Americans call “strictly for the birds”.’ 1963 Listener 14 Feb. 301/2 Our answer, at that age, would have been that Stanley Matthews was for the birds. Football was just not mobile enough. 2012 Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 27/3 The idea that a big national insurance cut would by boosting growth, more than pay for itself is also, frankly, for the birds. < as lemmas |
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