单词 | just the trick |
释义 | > as lemmasjust the trick colloquial (originally U.S.). just the trick: exactly what is needed or wanted. Cf. just the job at job n.2 Phrases 14, just the thing at thing n.1 7a. ΚΠ 1859 Weekly Times (Dubuque, Iowa) 8 Sept. 6/1 The ‘Plow-Handle Ticket’ is just the trick. 1894 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 2 Aug. 153/2 Many thanks for the editor's description of Miss Wilson's veil. I could not understand her description, but now I have made one, and it is just ‘the trick’. 1930 Boys' Life June 63/1 (advt.) Here's Buddy—the newest, handiest, prettiest, flashlight lantern! Just the trick for scout work, hikes, camping and a hundred other uses! 1963 N. Freeling Gun before Butter iii. 164 We'll have some burgundy. I've a Vosne Romanée; just the trick. 2003 Pop. Sci. Apr. 46 With killer germs infecting the headlines,..baseball-style trading cards may be just the trick to help you keep track of them all. < as lemmas |
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