| 单词 | to run to type |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run (true) to type (b) to run (true) to type: to conform to a particular type or class; to be or behave as expected. ΚΠ 1898 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 8 p. xlvii The stigmata..are indicative of a general weakening of the organization and in the nature of the case cannot be expected to run true to type. 1907 Country Life 9 Feb. 186/1 Somehow or other peasant proprietors all the world over have a curious resemblance. They run to type. 1952 Billboard 22 Mar. 51/2 His minor figures are mainly caricatures... The townspeople run to type. 1987 A. Kuper S. Afr. & Anthropologist ii. 22 Of course, not all meetings ran to type, but this was the general frame of a lekgota meeting. 2008 V. Nicholson Singled Out ii. 36 He had begun to observe that not all these man-haters ran true to type. < as lemmas |
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