| 单词 | they are off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthey are off f. In colloquial phrases (originally with reference to Horse Racing). they're off (occasionally they are off): the race has started. to be off and running: to have started and be making good progress. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make good progress to go or run on wheelsc1547 forge1769 to be off and running1823 to be well on one's (also the) way1900 to take or make strides1926 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [interjection] > start they're off1823 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 129 ‘Now they are off’, said of horse-racing, on those courses where jockeys are cheatingly permitted to make three, four, five, or more false starts. 1833 Mirror of Lit. 27 July 59/2 They are off! ‘No, no’—cries one jockey whose horse turned his tail to the others. 1846 ‘Sylvanus’ Pedestrian & Other Reminisc. xxiv. 227 The horses are paraded, the flag is dropped—‘they're off!’ is repeated by twenty thousand tongues. 1872 B. Jerrold London viii. 74 Clear the course!.. A flutter goes through the sea of heads on the Grand Stand... They're off! 1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude viii. 288 They're off!.. Navy and Washington are leading—Gordon's third. 1962 Washington Daily News 31 July 29/3 It took a gent who wasn't good enough to make it in the National League to get them off and running. 1974 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) xliii. 307 And they're off..(the starting stall doors fly open; out come eight identically dressed Queen Victorias). 1994 Magnet May 20/2 The band was off and running but its momentum was impeded temporarily by Dwyer's departure from the ranks. < as lemmas |
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