单词 | tingle factor |
释义 | > as lemmastingle factor tingle factor n. an element which sets something (chiefly a piece of music) apart and makes it thrilling or exciting.Popularized by the BBC radio programme The Tingle Factor.Quot. 1982 attests earlier use of tingle quotient in the same sense. ΚΠ 1982 G. Smith Beyond Tingle Quotient 158 A special word of thanks must go to two schoolmasters, David Milnes-Oldbury and his friend John Irvine, who dreamed up the notion of the tingle quotient over gin and tonics after their weekly squash games.] 1985 Times 12 Feb. 28/6 The wind-chill factor was enough to freeze a warm-blooded Puerto Rican even before he has contended with the tingle factor of the King's Hall. 1989 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 12/4 From a busy if not exactly vintage year for music in the concert hall and opera house, five events vibrate in my memory with that extra intensity that a BBC programme has called, effectively if embarrassingly, ‘the tingle factor’. 1993 Independent on Sunday 4 Apr. (Review Suppl.) 48/3 Fermented black bean sauces, and bean pastes like miso, have the glutamate tingle factor. 2015 Great Yarmouth Mercury (Nexis) 20 Nov. The recital concluded with a Debussy piece which shivered with sensitivity and tenderness and the tingle factor. < as lemmas |
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