| 单词 | red flag to a bull |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred flag to a bull b. In full red flag to a bull. A source of provocation; = red rag n. 2. Frequently in similative use. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun] > action of infuriating > that which infuriates red rag1720 red flag1845 infuriant1953 1797 R. Broome Strictures on Mr. Burke's Two Lett. 35 To suffer ourselves to be deluded to the attack by collateral and partial resemblances, would be to imitate the stupid animal which aims its horns at the fluttering of the red flag.] 1845 Amer. Whig Rev. June 569/2 The Club was to the opposing party what the red flag is to the bull. 1872 Times 17 July 11/1 The name of Jesuits had only been brought forward as a red flag to madden the world. 1893 Lipincott's Monthly Mag. 52 411 This bicycle-riding is in Kizzy's mind the most disreputable thing a woman can do, and the sight of a girl on a wheel..is like a red flag to a bull. 1918 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 78 200 They regarded [him] as pro-German... He was a red flag to most patriotic Englishmen. 1962 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 29 475 Scabbing to a striker is as much a provocation as the proverbial red flag to the bull. 2007 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 June d1 West's pointing at second base was like a red flag for Bard, who charged onto the field. < as lemmas |
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