单词 | a kid with a new toy |
释义 | > as lemmas(like) a kid (also child) with a new toy a. (like) a kid (also child) with a new toy: used to indicate that a person (usually an adult) is delighted with or excited by something, esp. a newly-acquired novelty or device. ΚΠ 1807 M. A. Radcliffe Let. in Memoirs (1810) ii. 25 But, like a child with a new toy, I was delighted with the novelty of the undertaking. 1913 Motor World Wholesale 6 Sept. 31/1 He was like a kid with a new toy... It was..a small, portable, but none the less heavy, blacksmith's forge. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 June d6 At Wimbledon today... Nastase..saved his greatest routines for the ‘electronic eyes’... He rolled balls at them, and dropped them on the lines to see if he could fool them. He was a kid with a new toy. 2012 D. Kauffman Babycakes 128 Lani had jumped straight into the new project like a kid with a new toy. < as lemmas |
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