| 单词 | men in white coats |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmen in white coats men in white coats n. (a) medical or laboratory staff, esp. doctors (cf. whitecoat n. 1c); (b) psychiatrists or psychiatric workers, usually (with humorous exaggeration) referred to in order to imply a person's supposedly imbalanced or deluded state of mind. ΚΠ 1961 W. Fennell Dexter gets Point 135 I think I'd better phone the man in the white coat.] 1967 L. Andrews Hosp. Circles ii. 33 He did not wake when the usual procession of night sisters and men in white coats came in and out. 1968 D. Helwig in Sat. Night Mar. 37/3 They're going to put you in jail, do you know that? Or they're going to send the men in white coats for you. 1992 A. McConnell Quantum Leap v. 76 Around the perimeter of the next room men in white coats moved back and forth, exchanging worried comments. 1994 Guardian 21 Nov. i. 20/5 Sir Richard Body..the target of a famous Major aside about men in white coats, and a man with little to lose. < as lemmas |
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