| 单词 | something nasty in the woodshed |
| 释义 | > as lemmassomething nasty in the woodshed 3. something nasty in the woodshed and variants: used to denote a traumatic or unpleasant experience in a person's history, or something (esp. something shocking or distasteful) that is or has been concealed or kept secret. Hence in similar phrases, in which nasty is replaced by another adjective or omitted, and in other allusive uses.Originally in allusion to quot. 1932. Π 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm x. 141 When you were very small..you had seen something nasty in the woodshed.] 1935 Punch 16 Oct. 444/1 Trying to push them down into their sub-conscious, or something. You know. Like seeing something nasty in the woodshed. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 30/1 Mr Amis does not, however, present Garnet Bowen as a case-history, whose dislike of foreign parts could be explained on a woodshed basis. 1959 Listener 8 Jan. 78/3 As the leading Torquemada, Miss Margaret Lane clearly felt some obligation to strive to uncover something—well—interesting in the woodshed. 1959 Sunday Times 5 July 6/6 He enjoyed a temperate childhood: nothing nasty in his woodshed. 1968 B. Bainbridge Another Part of Wood ii. 70 They had all, Joseph, brother Trevor, the younger sister,..come across something nasty in the woodshed, mother or father or both, having it off with someone else. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Oct. 4 People may think Mr Brown knows there is ‘something in the woodshed’—possibly an economic downturn. < as lemmas |
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