| 单词 | to mail it in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto mail it in colloquial (chiefly North American). to mail it in: to perform (an action or task) without full attention or in a perfunctory or unenthusiastic manner. Cf. phone v. 3. ΚΠ 1971 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Sept. (TV Week section) 16/3 To a veteran stage actress like her, television is a snap... ‘I could have mailed it in,’ she said with her typical wry humor. 1983 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 23 Mar. Unless you change [how you sing it], it becomes a bore, and you might as well just mail it in. 1992 Sport (N.Y.) Dec. 51/3 A lot of guys mailed it in..[and] did not really play as hard as they should have. 2007 J. Lohr Power of Story 144 You must write..while fully conscious. No sleepwalking through the process; no mailing it in. < as lemmas |
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