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单词 to do a slow burn
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to do a slow burn
1. A display or manifestation of slowly-mounting anger or frustration; the act or state of gradually becoming enraged. Esp. in to do a slow burn.In early use often with reference to a display of anger or frustration acted in a film (esp. in a comic context) and frequently associated with the American comedy actor Edgar Kennedy (1890–1948), whose signature technique of conveying rising anger was known as the slow burn.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [noun] > becoming angry > slowly
slow burn1933
1933 Internat. Photographer July 32/2 Rehearsing. Demetri cannot remember his line. Miss VaDillah burning up. (This is a slow burn.)
1935 Screenland Feb. 20/1 Liza,..you do the most marvelous ‘slow burn’ I have ever seen. You should see your face... Come, now, don't be mad.
1951 ‘J. Tey’ Daughter of Time xiv. 184 Just a nice polite reasonable Act for him to swallow and like it. I bet he did a slow burn about that one.
1969 H. Carvic Miss Seeton draws Line v. 93 A slow burn began inside Bob.
1997 ‘S. Shem’ Mount Misery ii. 39 I went into a slow burn, wanting to respond, but stopping myself.
extracted from slow burnn.adj.
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