| 单词 | as flat as a flounder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas flat as a flounder 1. A small flatfish, Pleuronectes Flesus. In the U.S. applied to various other species of flatfish. Proverb: as flat as a flounder. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > plaice, flounder, or sole sole1347 floundera1450 plaicec1450 tongue-fish1655 tonguea1825 lemon dab1835 lemon sole1890 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Pleuronectidae > member of genus Platichthyes (flounder) flukea700 buttc1300 floundera1450 suanta1609 salmon flounder1815 Monterey halibut1882 the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > broad in relation to thickness [phrase] (as) flat as a pancake1611 as flat as a flounder1856 a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 30 The flounder is an holsom fisshe. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. B.ivv Base flounders sole. 1627 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (rev. ed.) xvii. sig. Hh2v The Eele and Flounder are two greedy Fish and byte at the red worme. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 174 Fish..that continually crawl at the bottom; such as the eel and the flounder. 1828 T. Hood Stanzas to T. Woodgate in Lit. Souvenir IV. 166 Or are you where the flounders keep, Some dozen briny fathoms deep. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. vii. 77 You came in upon four of us down as flat as flounders. < as lemmas |
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