英语词汇“the dog ate my homework”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. the dog ate my homework and variants: (the type of) an unconvincing or far-fetched excuse for failing to hand in school homework, or (by extension) for any failure to do or produce what was expected. Frequently attributive.

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1929 Manch. Guardian 31 July 7/6 It is a long time since I have had the excuse about the dog tearing up the arithmetic homework.

1968 D. Schwab in R. Wisniewski New Teachers in Urban Schools iv. 127 Any teacher gullible enough to fall for the inevitable story, ‘my little sister ate my homework’, without demanding a new version of the same, deserves the reputation she will soon have to live with.

1976 E. C. Kennedy St. Patrick's Day with Mayor Daley vi. 87 As the third [Watergate] tape unwinds, he and the President are working on the greatest excuse since ‘The dog ate my homework’.

1990 Science 20 July 241/3 OSI [= Office of Scientific Integrity] must guard itself against variations of the old ‘the dog ate my homework’ excuse.

1995 New Yorker 4 Dec. 78/1 His version of his crimes have [sic] a decided my-dog-ate-my-homework quality.

2001 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 6 Sept. A schoolboy trying to explain that an alien ate his homework seemed quite plausible in comparison.

2005 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 2 July 28 Clark..expects his executives to produce, and he tells them so: ‘I don't want to hear the story about how the dog stole your homework.’

单词	the dog ate my homework
释义	> as lemmas the dog ate my homework P2. the dog ate my homework and variants: (the type of) an unconvincing or far-fetched excuse for failing to hand in school homework, or (by extension) for any failure to do or produce what was expected. Frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1929 Manch. Guardian 31 July 7/6 It is a long time since I have had the excuse about the dog tearing up the arithmetic homework. 1968 D. Schwab in R. Wisniewski New Teachers in Urban Schools iv. 127 Any teacher gullible enough to fall for the inevitable story, ‘my little sister ate my homework’, without demanding a new version of the same, deserves the reputation she will soon have to live with. 1976 E. C. Kennedy St. Patrick's Day with Mayor Daley vi. 87 As the third [Watergate] tape unwinds, he and the President are working on the greatest excuse since ‘The dog ate my homework’. 1990 Science 20 July 241/3 OSI [= Office of Scientific Integrity] must guard itself against variations of the old ‘the dog ate my homework’ excuse. 1995 New Yorker 4 Dec. 78/1 His version of his crimes have [sic] a decided my-dog-ate-my-homework quality. 2001 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 6 Sept. A schoolboy trying to explain that an alien ate his homework seemed quite plausible in comparison. 2005 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 2 July 28 Clark..expects his executives to produce, and he tells them so: ‘I don't want to hear the story about how the dog stole your homework.’ extracted from homeworkn. < as lemmas
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