| 单词 | to disappear up one's own ass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto disappear (also vanish, etc.) up one's own ass a. to disappear (also vanish, etc.) up one's own ass: to be over-engaged with oneself or one's own concerns, affairs, or work, to the exclusion of anyone or anything else; to become excessively self-involved, self-important, or pretentious. [Originally with allusion to the behaviour humorously attributed to various (real or mythical) birds: see quot. 1951, and oozlum n.] ΚΠ 1951 C. Willingham Gates of Hell 86 A gub-gub bird..flies around and around in a circle so fast and so perpetually that eventually he flies up his own ass.] 1973 P. Schaeffer Hank's Navy Buddies 146 My thoughts running in tight circles, so tight they disappeared up their own asses. 1992 Q. Tarentino L.A. Weekly 22 Oct. in Q. Tarentino & G. Peary Q. Tarentino: Interviews (1998) 48 If all you can do is these little art films for 10 years.., you're going to climb up your own ass. 2008 Cape Argus (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 19 Aug. (Entertainment section) 4 Wouldn't it be great to arm our performers with the training they need to rescue the world from..its obsession with vanishing up its own ass? < as lemmas |
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