| 单词 | parade ground major | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasparade ground major   General attributive, as  parade-ground bearing,  parade ground gate,  parade ground major,  parade ground manner,  parade ground voice, etc. ΚΠ 1892    Harper's Mag. Dec. 137  				Both dismounted at the parade-ground gate. 1918    Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 20 Dec. 245/1  				He..[has] a particularly keen ‘derry’ on the parade-ground N.C.O. 1932    Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 693/4  				The preposterous chief constable is of no use at all, and his parade-ground manners make a suitable contrast to Colonel Gethryn's cool and gentlemanly efficiency. 1937    J. R. Firth Tongues of Men 41  				There is a well-known Prussian parade-ground type of voice. 1961    M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited 		(1963)	 ii. 28  				He expected the boys to have a parade-ground bearing. a1963    S. Plath Crossing Water 		(1971)	 23  				Pawing like paradeground horses. 1976    R. Condon Whisper of Axe  i. xxi. 130  				A spit-and-polish, parade-ground major. 1991    A. Kemp SAS at War 		(BNC)	 11  				Bennett..had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards. 2000    A. Ghosh Glass Palace 		(2001)	 xxi. 263  				At the end of it, I barked at him, in my best parade-ground voice: ‘Kishan Sing! What do you think of this kahani?’ < as lemmas  | 
	
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