| 单词 | one's mind is a sink |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's mind is (like) a sink (also sewer, cesspool) m. British colloquial. a mind like a sink (also sewer, cesspool): an imagination that tends to put an indecent construction on events, or which is filled with lewd ideas and images. Also one's mind is (like) a sink (also sewer, cesspool). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > indecent a mind like a sink (also sewer, cesspool)1920 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > indecent [phrase] > indecent imagination a mind like a sink (also sewer, cesspool)1920 1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 23 Mar. (1993) III. 255 Bunny talks as Ive never heard a prostitute talk—or a woman in a brothel. Her mind is a sink: shes sex mad. 1932 A. Christie Thirteen Probl. x. 170 And if one tries to warn them..they tell one that one has a Victorian mind—and that, they say, is like a sink. 1949 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite viii. 129 He concluded by saying it was a pity that some people, whose identity he did not specify, had minds like sinks. a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) viii. 101 Norah, a toothy vixen..with a mind like a cesspool. 1970 S. Taylor Murder grows Roots ii. 16 [She] said he'd probably gone off with some woman. Her mind's like a sink. 1974 L. Deighton Spy Story xix. 208 Your mind is like a sewer, pal. 2000 Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 1 Oct. For a million dollars would you sleep with an 89-year-old wheelchair-bound millionaire with wobbly dentures, wandering (liver-spotted) hands and a mind like a sewer? < as lemmas |
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