| 单词 | born tired |
| 释义 | > as lemmasborn tired P10. born tired and variants: used as an ironically implausible excuse for a person's chronic laziness or apathy. ΚΠ 1864 Indianapolis Daily Jrnl. 21 July 2/3 The subscriber may be wrong, but it has occurred to him that the Union men of Indiana are either lazy or ‘born tired’.—Never does he remember to have seen..so much apathy during..any campaign. 1916 A. K. Yapp Told in Huts (2014) 158 Jim was not given to indulging in any excess of energy, and, to put it mildly, he was one of those fellows who was born a bit tired. 1947 Southern Folklore Q. 11 264 In northeast Mississippi it is customary to say of the afflicted person, ‘He was born tired and raised lazy.’ 2012 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 24 June ‘I was born tired,’ said Cassano to excuse a blatant trip on..Casillas in Italy's first game. It was easier to bring his old Real Madrid team-mate down than to have to run for the ball. < as lemmas |
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