| 单词 | slush pile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslush pile slush pile n. originally U.S. (a) a mass or pile of slush; also figurative; (b) Publishing the unsolicited manuscripts submitted for consideration at a publishing house, magazine, etc., considered collectively. ΚΠ 1907 Washington Post 17 Jan. 13/2 They discovered the ‘slush’ pile to be wet. 1940 Writer June 168/1 In many magazine offices the ‘slush pile’..goes to the less important readers. 1972 Rev. Educ. Res. 42 300 Hard knowledge springs out of a slush pile of data and interpretations. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 14/4 Golding was forty-three, it was his first novel, and it was rescued from the maligned ‘slush pile’. < as lemmas |
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