| 单词 | like rabbits |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike rabbits P3. colloquial. like rabbits and variants: (with reference to reproduction) quickly and prolifically; (with reference to sexual activity) very frequently and energetically. ΚΠ 1897 E. Bellamy Equality xxxviii. 364 Wherever the poverty and squalor chiefly abounded..humankind multiplied like rabbits. 1936 B. Penton Inheritors ix. 72 They'd knacker us white bushmen if they got the chance and let them Chows and Jimmy Tannas breed like rabbits. 1972 P. McCartney Hi, Hi, Hi, plus C Moon 6 Go like a rabbit, gonna grab it, gonna do it 'til the night is done. 1980 W. Abish How German is It? iii. xxiii. 150 Egon and his current girl friend going at it like rabbits. 1999 Detroit Free Press (Nexis) 11 Oct. 1 a The reason the world's population exploded in the 20th Century was not because people started breeding like rabbits... It's because they stopped dropping like flies. 2006 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 12 Feb. 39 I also get to go grab a girl from a coffee shop and shag like rabbits. < as lemmas |
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