| 单词 | a kid in a toy shop |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(like) a kid (also child) in a toy shop (like) a kid (also child) in a toy shop and variants: used to indicate that a person is excited by what is on offer, or has so many desirable or enticing options that it is difficult to make a choice.Cf. like a kid in a toy store at toy store n. Phrases, like a kid in a candy shop at candy n.2 Phrases 1. ΚΠ ?1785 J. Moir Gleanings I. xxv. 205 Such characters are in human society, like children in a toy-shop, just as intemperate in the choice of their trinkets, and not less disposed to abuse them when the fit is over. 1814 Maryland Gaz. 9 June Havresacks, shoes, bayonets, red epaulets, [etc.]..all lay around in such a confusion and chaos, that my friend & I were as children in a toy-shop not knowing what to take in preference. 1866 A. Fergusson ‘Crusher’ & Cross xviii. 133 Stepping into the place, he stared about him like a child in a toy-shop. 1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic 8 He was surfing his moment with the euphoric incredulity of a poor kid suddenly let loose in a toyshop. 2018 Daily Star (Nexis) 8 Sept. The ex-Broadchurch star said she was delighted to land the [Doctor Who] role, and she felt like ‘a kid in a toy shop’. < as lemmas |
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