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单词 frog-hop
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frog-hop
frog-hop n. (a) a very short distance or period of time, with allusion to the short, quick hop of a frog; (b) a short or ungainly jump, resembling the hop of a frog.
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1840 I. Steward Interdict I. vi. 87 The hole that tooth-pick made, would fill up in a frog-hop.
1845 Haileybury Observer III. 335 It is a popular error to confound the principal entrance with the entrance to the Principal's, which lies about a frog-hop S.S.W. of the former.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 292/2 The bear fled in ungainly frog-hops, whining pitifully.
2002 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 23 Oct. b1 Until that day, Clevelanders may be only a frog-hop away at the Cleveland Botanical Garden.
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