| 单词 | to give a body swerve |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give (something) a body swerve 2. colloquial. In extended use. An expedient evasion; an abrupt and unexpected change of course. Esp. in to give (something) a body swerve: to give (something) a miss, to go out of one's way to avoid (something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > evasion of responsibility, obligation, etc. > an act or means of evasionc1425 put-by1548 put-off1548 subterfuge1581 scape-sermon1654 offput1730 come-offa1836 bypass1957 body swerve1984 1984 Financial Times 15 Dec. 19/4 In 1981 the whole coalfield came out and forced Mrs Thatcher, if not into a U-turn, at least into a body swerve, as Scots miners' leader Mick McGahey put it. 1985 M. Munro Patter 12 I'm meant to be goin [sic] to my old dear's but I think I'll give it a body swerve. 1993 Daily Mirror 4 Aug. 24/4 A plot full of body swerves in a scintillating sex thriller that artfully apes the dark mysteries of the Forties. 1998 N. Hornby About Boy (1999) xxxii. 249 He'd used the phrase to prove that he knew it.., but quickly realized that if you knew it, these were precisely the circumstances in which you would give it an enormous body-swerve; it sounded flip and pseud and shallow. < as lemmas |
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