| 单词 | funhouse mirror |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfunhouse mirror General attributive, frequently in allusive or similative use referring to the effect of the distorting mirrors in a funhouse on a person's reflection; esp. in funhouse mirror. ΚΠ 1937 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 10 Nov. 5/3 The lass's hat casts a reflection like that of a fun-house mirror or a geometric on a modernistic picture. 1977 R. Coover Public Burning 242 He has not recognized his own image, grown gigantesque..it's like looking into some weird funhouse mirror that stretches one's shape. 1994 Harper's Mag. Nov. 58/2 This..turns democracy into some fun-house contortion of the ideal. 2003 N. Rush Mortals x. 68 Soil subsidence, which, combined with subterranean ant and termite activity, lent a funhouse aspect to walking on the flagstones. < as lemmas |
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