英语词汇“to be a wake-up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. [perhaps originally belonging to awake adj.] to be a (full) wake-up (also, of several persons, to be wake-ups): to be alert or wide awake (literal and figurative). Often const. to. Australian and New Zealand slang.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > be or remain awake [verb (intransitive)] > or alert

to have one's eyeteeth (about one)1713

to be a (full) wake-up1930

1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Apr. 58/2 ‘Cripes, you're a full wake-up to that at last, are you?’ Snow exclaimed.

1934 W. S. Howard You're telling Me! i. 12 Well, I'm awake-up; they don't get nothing out of me!]

1943 F. Sargeson in Penguin New Writing 18 68 Now I was a wake-up to what was in Maggie's mind.

1943 F. Sargeson in Penguin New Writing 18 69 The pair of us were wake-ups when we heard somebody coming up the stairs.

1946 M. Trist in Hadgraft & Wilson Century of Austral. Short Stories (1963) 214 ‘Don't you think we ought to have a cow?’.. ‘No, I'm a wake-up to cows’, said Dan. ‘Saw enough of them when I was a kid.’

1955 D. Niland Shiralee 19 A man should have hauled the cap off his head and chucked ninepence into it just to show him who was a wake-up to who.

1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. x. 248 I never knew till now! Well, I'm a wake-up!

1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds ii. 46 When he saw the army lads were a wakeup he was off like a shot.

单词	to be a wake-up
释义	> as lemmas to be a (full) wake-up 2. [perhaps originally belonging to awake adj.] to be a (full) wake-up (also, of several persons, to be wake-ups): to be alert or wide awake (literal and figurative). Often const. to. Australian and New Zealand slang. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > be or remain awake [verb (intransitive)] > or alert to have one's eyeteeth (about one)1713 to be a (full) wake-up1930 1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Apr. 58/2 ‘Cripes, you're a full wake-up to that at last, are you?’ Snow exclaimed. 1934 W. S. Howard You're telling Me! i. 12 Well, I'm awake-up; they don't get nothing out of me!] 1943 F. Sargeson in Penguin New Writing 18 68 Now I was a wake-up to what was in Maggie's mind. 1943 F. Sargeson in Penguin New Writing 18 69 The pair of us were wake-ups when we heard somebody coming up the stairs. 1946 M. Trist in Hadgraft & Wilson Century of Austral. Short Stories (1963) 214 ‘Don't you think we ought to have a cow?’.. ‘No, I'm a wake-up to cows’, said Dan. ‘Saw enough of them when I was a kid.’ 1955 D. Niland Shiralee 19 A man should have hauled the cap off his head and chucked ninepence into it just to show him who was a wake-up to who. 1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. x. 248 I never knew till now! Well, I'm a wake-up! 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds ii. 46 When he saw the army lads were a wakeup he was off like a shot. extracted from wake-upadj.n. < as lemmas
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