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单词 to flap one's mouth
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to flap one's mouth
b. intransitive. colloquial. To speak (anxiously) about; to be upset; to become agitated; to fuss; to panic. (Cf. flap n. 2c.) Also (transitive) to flap one's mouth.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > be in state of nervous excitement [verb (intransitive)]
to take ona1450
seethe1609
trepidate1623
to take on oneself1632
flutter1668
pother1715
to be upon the nettle (also in a nettle)1723
to be nerve all over1778
to be all nerve1819
to be (all) on wires1824
to break up1825
to carry on1828
to be on (occasionally upon or on the) edge1872
faff1874
to have kittens1900
flap1910
to be in, get in(to), a flap1939
to go sparec1942
to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964
faffle1965
to get one's knickers in a twist1971
to have a canary1971
to wet one's pants1979
tweak1981
1870 G. Meredith Let. 27 Jan. (1970) I. 415 Out flaps the big girl with a whinny, Fire! Fire!]
1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly vii. 166 You go flapping your silly mouth about me, and I'll give you a poke in the eye.
1912 R. Kipling in London Mag. Apr. 170/1 ‘We're a nice lot to flap about governing the Planet,’ De Forest laughed.
1927 J. Elder Thomasina Toddy ix ‘Anne's a jolly nice person,’ she said to Stella. ‘Not bad. Nothing to flap about,’ said Stella.
1927 J. Elder Thomasina Toddy xxii ‘It's beastly, being so little,’ she said crossly. Anne..said ‘But it doesn't matter, Tom. You mustn't let it. It's silly to flap about things which can't be remedied.’
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 32 A person who can't ‘cope’ or who is very nervous is told to stop ‘flapping’.
1952 J. Cannan Body in Beck viii. 171 My mamma flaps about my climbing, he said, and I said..it's no more dangerous than crossing the Corn.
1959 J. Verney Friday's Tunnel iii. 39 Mummy..burst into tears. I put my arm round her waist. ‘Please don't flap.’
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