| 单词 | to fall into a booby trap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fall (also walk) into a booby trap 1. A means of deliberately tricking or luring an unwary or foolish person into difficulty or error. Also: a hidden or unsuspected source of difficulty; a pitfall. Frequently in to fall (also walk) into a booby trap. Cf. pitfall n. 4.Frequently used or understood as a figurative use of sense 2.In quot. 1832 with reference to Lord Henley's use of the word ‘speedy’ when pledging to abolish slavery in the West Indies. ΚΠ 1832 Morning Chron. 19 Nov. 3/4 Let them only look at our ‘cunning Isaac's’ booby-trap, ‘speedy’, and determine for themselves, whether his old Tory Friends would have in his Lordship a very warm or stiff opponent. 1884 Edinb. Courant 13 Oct. 6/6 If we were to fall into such a booby trap..as Sir Wm. Harcourt called it, as to put the two bills on the table at the same time, and endeavour to put them on the statute book together [etc.]. 1895 Sat. Rev. 4 May 582/2 Joint stock booby-traps in South Africa... In spite of Sir John Willoughby's unhesitating recommendation, we regard these as the most preposterous schemes..offered to the public. 1924 National Rev. Aug. 807 Many City bankers walked into every booby trap set for them by German ‘Imperialists’ and ‘Militarists’ before the war. 1956 New Outlook June 57/2 Let us not fall into the booby trap of using methods that give Russia grounds for hostility, that frighten our friends, and that alienate the uncommitted nations whose friendship we want and need. 1989 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Mar. a1 Quayle was still extraordinarily ill-at-ease—with reporters in particular—examining even the most innocuous questions for hidden booby traps. 2005 W. W. Wittmann in O. Wilhelm & R. W. Engle Handbk. Understanding & Measuring Intelligence xiii. 223/1 Group differences is a most controversial topic in psychology and social sciences, in which a researcher can easily fall into booby traps. < as lemmas |
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