| 单词 | grand bounce |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrand bounce grand bounce n. U.S. colloquial (now rare and regional) (with the) ejection from a place; summary dismissal from a job, position, etc.; (also) abrupt rejection of a suitor or lover; frequently in to get (also give) the grand bounce (cf. bounce n.1 3b); abbreviated g.b.Usage in California, Michigan, and Wisconsin is recorded from 1965–70in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. 352/2. ΚΠ 1874 Democratic Pharos (Logansport, Indiana) 28 Jan. We think that the Kendallville Justice who fined a man only five dollars for giving a local editor the ‘grand bounce’ has established a bad precedent—for local editors. 1880 News & Press (Cimarron, New Mexico) 23 Dec. 1/7 ‘Well, I've got the g.b.’ ‘The geebee, Thomas! What in the nation is that?’ ‘I've got the grand bounce.’ 1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home xxviii. 161 She led him on by every art known to her sex, and then tossed him, as Miss Ralson said, or gave him the grand bounce. 1915 B. Tarkington Turmoil xxxii. in Harper's Mag. Mar. 582/2 He keeps after me to hold up my end o' the job. I shouldn't be surprised he'd give me the grand bounce some day, and run the whole circus by himself. < as lemmas |
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