英语词汇“off song”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. off song: (of a bird) in or into a state of not singing; silent; (figurative) not operating or performing as well as is usual or expected; in poor form or condition.In later figurative use probably sometimes after on song at Phrases 4b.

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1853 Bird Keeper's Guide & Compan. 13 These people lend out their birds to the nobility..and when any of their stud fall off song, the parties are supplied with others.

1889 Women's Union Jrnl. 16 Sept. 73/1 Give you Pisgah Grapes did she, when there's heaps of cold scran left from the cold collection? She ain't a bad un mostly, only a little off song.

1890 Sporting Times 22 Feb. 1/2 Elizabeth's bag was a trifle off song... Its inner arrangements had somehow gone wrong.

1927 Times 5 Oct. 8/7 (advt.) If you are feeling ‘off song’, you must try it [sc. the medicine].

1953 Illustr. London News 23 May 838/2 The robin, for example, is off song for a relatively short period in late autumn.

1974 P. Schilling Motorcycle World v. 95/2 The bike was reputed to be so sensitive to the weather that riders joked about the engine going off-song when a cloud intercepted the sun.

2007 Mid Sussex Times (Nexis) 19 Aug. White was certainly not the only visiting player off song and therein lay Rangers' problems.

2015 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 Mar. (Extra section) 27 I've been ordered to take off my hat because anything—a red sunhat, the flash of a camera, could put the birds off-song.

单词	off song
释义	> as lemmas off song a. off song: (of a bird) in or into a state of not singing; silent; (figurative) not operating or performing as well as is usual or expected; in poor form or condition.In later figurative use probably sometimes after on song at Phrases 4b. ΚΠ 1853 Bird Keeper's Guide & Compan. 13 These people lend out their birds to the nobility..and when any of their stud fall off song, the parties are supplied with others. 1889 Women's Union Jrnl. 16 Sept. 73/1 Give you Pisgah Grapes did she, when there's heaps of cold scran left from the cold collection? She ain't a bad un mostly, only a little off song. 1890 Sporting Times 22 Feb. 1/2 Elizabeth's bag was a trifle off song... Its inner arrangements had somehow gone wrong. 1927 Times 5 Oct. 8/7 (advt.) If you are feeling ‘off song’, you must try it [sc. the medicine]. 1953 Illustr. London News 23 May 838/2 The robin, for example, is off song for a relatively short period in late autumn. 1974 P. Schilling Motorcycle World v. 95/2 The bike was reputed to be so sensitive to the weather that riders joked about the engine going off-song when a cloud intercepted the sun. 2007 Mid Sussex Times (Nexis) 19 Aug. White was certainly not the only visiting player off song and therein lay Rangers' problems. 2015 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 Mar. (Extra section) 27 I've been ordered to take off my hat because anything—a red sunhat, the flash of a camera, could put the birds off-song. extracted from songn.¹ < as lemmas
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