| 单词 | of the week |
| 释义 | > as lemmas—— of the week f. —— of the week: designating a featured person or thing (often the most successful or favoured) of a specified kind for a given week; (now also) humorously designating the subject of a current trend. Cf. flavour of the month (or week) at flavour n. 3d. ΚΠ 1906 Hamburg (Iowa) Reporter 16 Nov. 6/4 (heading) The recipe of the week. 1937 Life 16 Aug. 24 (caption) Strike picture of the week comes from Brooklyn, where a shipyard walkout..has dragged on since mid-June. 1960 Jet 10 Mar. 26 Salesman of the week... Jack Hall... tried to sell subscriptions to Collier's magazine, which went out of business several years ago. 1975 C. Hirschhorn Films James Mason 12/2 The film received splendid reviews.., scooping M.G.M.'s prestigious Marie Antoinette as the film of the week in The Times newspaper. 1986 Jewish Advocate 11 Dec. a9/3 Television has its disease of the week. 1995 M. Matalin & J. Carville All's Fair 256 Every Friday we named the Employee of the Week, who would get a gold star and a jar of barbecue sauce. 2010 Daily Tel. 4 Nov. 26/2 Random fact of the week: Lady Gaga takes up 10 petabytes of bandwidth on Google. < as lemmas |
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