单词 | showing up |
释义 | > as lemmasshowing up showing up n. the action or fact of showing someone up (in various senses), or of being shown up; an instance of this; esp. (chiefly Scottish) a humiliating experience or situation. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun] > bringing into disrepute > exposure of false claims or pretensions show-up1824 showing up1835 debunking1923 1835 Westm. Rev. Oct. 245/1 Not half the gall in his pen, probably flowed from the heart. His most remorseless showings-up were often nothing more than caricatures. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 420/1 I kept pilfering, and at last they bowled me out... I got a showing up, and at last they turned me away. 1935 A. McArthur & H. Kingsley Long No Mean City (1957) v. 61 Soon a dozen other people..had joined the group, all of them eager to see the fun or the fight, or the ‘showing up’, or whatever should come of it all. 1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed vi. 64 Tim summed up..the boy's loss of face: ‘Whit a showin' up in front o' aw the boays.’ 2005 R. Douglas Night Song Last Tram 79 Ah've never had such a showing up in ma life, ah'll never be able tae look that man in the face again. < as lemmas |
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