英语词汇“to have legs”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Originally in Billiards. With reference to a ball: the momentum needed to reach a desired point. Esp. in to have (the) legs.

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1869 Sportsman Feb. 87 Cook's ball..never seems to have ‘legs’ to reach the object intended.

1879 J. L. Molloy Our Autumn Holiday on French Rivers xvi. 110 Bow played for a final cannon... His ball struggled on, but, in billiard parlance, it hadn't enough legs.

1918 Golfers Mag. Sept. 23/1 Once or twice it threatened to stop but it just had legs enough to come to the rim..and then fell ‘plump’ into the cup.

1959 I. Fleming Goldfinger ix. 113 Desperately Bond focused the ball and tried to keep his swing all in one piece. There came the ugly clonk of a mis-hit ball... It was a lofted hook. Would it have the legs?

1994 Times 31 May 23/5 He drove Emburey through the leg side,..giving the ball enough ‘legs’ to beat Fraser's chase to the rope.

2013 M. Haszto Deafening Vibrations 228 Matt ripped a long line drive to left center field... It looked as though the ball had enough legs to clear the fence.

b. Originally and chiefly U.S. With reference to a product or idea: popular appeal or success, esp. over a long period of time; the potential to be popular or successful; staying power. Frequently in to have legs.Originally with reference to a book, film, etc.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > popularity > [noun] > potential for popularity

leg1930

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > popularity > become popular [verb (intransitive)] > have potential for popularity

to have legs1930

1930 R. R. Clark Let. in Publ. Texas Folk-lore Soc. 8 153 His stuff was much copied and when he wrote something that went the rounds he would say that ‘it had legs’.

1978 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 July 22/2 Books that used to be called pageturners but are now referred to as books with legs, presumably because they seem to walk off the shelves.

1985 Time 4 Feb. 85 Sometimes..movies can elude their death warrants and flourish into cult objects through doggedness and word of mouth. They acquire ‘legs’.

1991 Spy (N.Y.) Mar. 19/2 The Tracking Study can be used to assess a film's potential ‘legs’.

1996 Entertainm. Weekly 3 May 7/1 But it's not clear if the stock has legs: Prices dipped the next trading day to $26 but edged up to just over $17 at press time.

2010 Independent 18 Feb. 20/3 Brown was furious that his spin doctors had ‘allowed’ the story to get legs.

2011 D. Eagleman Incognito (2012) v. 125 No one yet knows whether Jaynes's theory has legs, but the proposal is too interesting to ignore.

单词	to have legs
释义	> as lemmas to have (the) legs a. Originally in Billiards. With reference to a ball: the momentum needed to reach a desired point. Esp. in to have (the) legs. ΚΠ 1869 Sportsman Feb. 87 Cook's ball..never seems to have ‘legs’ to reach the object intended. 1879 J. L. Molloy Our Autumn Holiday on French Rivers xvi. 110 Bow played for a final cannon... His ball struggled on, but, in billiard parlance, it hadn't enough legs. 1918 Golfers Mag. Sept. 23/1 Once or twice it threatened to stop but it just had legs enough to come to the rim..and then fell ‘plump’ into the cup. 1959 I. Fleming Goldfinger ix. 113 Desperately Bond focused the ball and tried to keep his swing all in one piece. There came the ugly clonk of a mis-hit ball... It was a lofted hook. Would it have the legs? 1994 Times 31 May 23/5 He drove Emburey through the leg side,..giving the ball enough ‘legs’ to beat Fraser's chase to the rope. 2013 M. Haszto Deafening Vibrations 228 Matt ripped a long line drive to left center field... It looked as though the ball had enough legs to clear the fence. extracted from legn. to have legs b. Originally and chiefly U.S. With reference to a product or idea: popular appeal or success, esp. over a long period of time; the potential to be popular or successful; staying power. Frequently in to have legs.Originally with reference to a book, film, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > popularity > [noun] > potential for popularity leg1930 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > popularity > become popular [verb (intransitive)] > have potential for popularity to have legs1930 1930 R. R. Clark Let. in Publ. Texas Folk-lore Soc. 8 153 His stuff was much copied and when he wrote something that went the rounds he would say that ‘it had legs’. 1978 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 July 22/2 Books that used to be called pageturners but are now referred to as books with legs, presumably because they seem to walk off the shelves. 1985 Time 4 Feb. 85 Sometimes..movies can elude their death warrants and flourish into cult objects through doggedness and word of mouth. They acquire ‘legs’. 1991 Spy (N.Y.) Mar. 19/2 The Tracking Study can be used to assess a film's potential ‘legs’. 1996 Entertainm. Weekly 3 May 7/1 But it's not clear if the stock has legs: Prices dipped the next trading day to $26 but edged up to just over $17 at press time. 2010 Independent 18 Feb. 20/3 Brown was furious that his spin doctors had ‘allowed’ the story to get legs. 2011 D. Eagleman Incognito (2012) v. 125 No one yet knows whether Jaynes's theory has legs, but the proposal is too interesting to ignore. extracted from legn. < as lemmas
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