| 单词 | lightning in a bottle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslightning in a bottle P4. lightning in a bottle: something exceedingly rare and remarkable. Originally and chiefly in to catch lightning in a bottle and variants: to create or experience something rare and remarkable; to succeed in a near impossible endeavour. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > rareness > something very rare rare1566 rariety1566 black swan?1570 rarity1592 hen's milk1601 white Negro1631 rara avis1651 (one) in a million1685 collector's or collectors' item1910 lightning in a bottle1941 rare bird1962 1941 N.Y. Times 6 Oct. (Sports section) 21/1 One of Durocher's pet expressions for someone who expects miracles is: ‘What're you tryin' to do—catch lightning in a bottle?’ 1987 Playboy May 147/1 Magazines latch on to something new and make it sound like lightning in a bottle. 2008 Vanity Fair Sept. 357 ‘It was lightning in a bottle,’ says Paul Wilmot, who was head of public relations at Calvin Klein in the late 1980s, when the supermodel phenomenon took flight. 2013 MELUS Winter 227 When you look at books that people have written, there is always one book that stands out. Sometimes you just catch lightning in a bottle, and it's there, and you can never duplicate it. < as lemmas |
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