| 单词 | or bust |
| 释义 | > as lemmas—— or bust P1. —— or bust: indicating a supreme effort to achieve the stated goal or specified destination, with utter failure as the only alternative. ΚΠ 1839 Southern Literary Messenger May 328/2 A large and respectable number of us resolved..to go it or bust; in three words, we played truant. 1861 Knickerbocker Aug. 117 The canvas wagon-cover is labeled: ‘Pike's Peak or Bust’. Three months hence it may bear in addition the words: ‘Busted, by Thunder’. 1918 J. B. Egan Beaten Path xvii. 100 ‘It's thirty million feet or bust!’ laughed Strong. The camp caught up the cry and it became the slogan that spurred the men to further action. 1961 Flying July 52/2 After a two-day visit, I pointed the sleek nose eastward, with Connecticut or bust on my mind. 2011 M. F. Ochoa Nueva Vida v. 48 His fear of failure had become insurmountable,..which prevented him from understanding there were other alternatives to the lifestyle he had long envisioned for himself. It was politics or bust! < as lemmas |
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