| 单词 | sunday golfer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSunday golfer e. With the sense ‘carrying out an activity on or only on Sundays; doing something purely for pleasure, or in an amateur or dilettantish way’, as Sunday golfer, Sunday poet, Sunday sailor, etc. See also Sunday driver n., Sunday painter n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1895 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Morning Free Press 4 June 2/1 (heading) Sunday golfers fined... Members of the Toronto Golf club, charged with breaking the Lord's Day Observance act by playing golf on the grounds of their club on Sunday. 1928 J. Buchan Runagates Club xii. 319 His clothes..were workman-like, and looked as if they belonged to him—no more the uneasy knickerbockers of the Sunday golfer. 1930 Parnassus 2 4/1 Indeed, many of them had been seen often before, and none of them was the work of the attic genius or the Sunday artist. 1939 Mansfield (Ohio) News Jrnl. 30 Sept. 4/7 A 5-inch rain was accompanied by a 65-mile-an-hour gale that caught scores of sports fishermen and Sunday sailors at sea. 1960 News Chron. 9 Mar. 6 Mr. Bratby may be a professional painter, but he is a Sunday novelist. 1978 Listener 6 Apr. 439/1 A small temple of individualism..by a Sunday architect. 1980 F. Warner Light Shadows x. 43 All the dilettante meretriciousness of a Sunday poet. 2007 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 4 June b1 Would-be Sunday sailors faced gale warnings for Maryland's portion of the Chesapeake Bay. < as lemmas |
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