| 单词 | to go down that road |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go down that road c. figurative. In phrases referring to a particular experience or course of action. Usually with down, as to go down that road, to go down the same road, etc. Π 1903 Rep. Comm. Public Accts. 68/1 in Jrnl. Legislative Assembly Province Ont. 37 App. No. 1 I don't think it is fair to haul me up and down that road again. 1931 P. MacDonald Polferry Riddle vi. 156 Lucas had not been down this road before. Pike had. It is to be guessed that Pike suffered the more. 1950 Relig. in Life 19 302 Barth, Brunner, Reinhold Niebuhr, and others have, in varying degrees, gone down the same road. 1977 Newsweek (Nexis) 17 Oct. 42 Henry has been down that road before and come back empty. 1999 N.Y. Mag. 8 Feb. 71 There are two kinds of food magnates today: repeat offenders who recycle one idea ad nauseam, and risk-hungry imagineers who never travel the same road twice. 2003 G. Mitchell Loyal Women viii. 94 Don't go down this road, Gail, it won't help your cause if you do something silly now. < as lemmas |
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