单词 | stick, stark, staring mad |
释义 | > as lemmasstick, stark, staring mad b. stick, stark, staring mad and variants: completely or unquestionably insane. Cf. stark staring mad at stark adv. 2b. Now rare. ΚΠ 1833 T. Hood Lost Heir in Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. Suppl. No. 637. 390/1 I shall go stick stark staring wild! 1880 T. Tharp Sword of Damocles I. xx. 262 ‘Holy pokers! just look!’ ejaculated Gore, as they rose to leave; ‘why, the giant's gone stick, stark, staring mad!’ 1908 Amer. Mag. Dec. 186/1 Now he had gone stick, stark, staring, raving, biting mad. 1933 S. Clark Germany on Fifty Dollars xxi. 227 Ludwig's castles are ‘stick stark staring mad’—and they are beautiful. < as lemmas |
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