| 单词 | to screw the pooch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto screw the pooch P7. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to screw the pooch: to make a (disastrous) mistake; to fail; to spoil or put an end to something; cf. to screw up at Phrasal verbs 1.Popularized by its use in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff (see quot. 1979) and the subsequent film version of the book (1983). [Perhaps after fuck v. Phrases 5(b). Compare sense 7 and also note at to screw up at Phrasal verbs 1.] ΚΠ 1978 M. T. Hinkemeyer Creator iii. 64 Bad if he couldn't cut the mustard, or screwed the pooch. 1979 T. Wolfe Right Stuff xi. 289 Grissom had just fucked it, screwed the pooch, that was all. 1995 U.S. Newswire (Nexis) 17 Aug. The list of the U.S. problems with China seems to be growing and growing—the latest example..the [underground nuclear] test today. Does this screw the pooch, so to say, on the Hillary Clinton trip? 2014 T. Perez-Giese Send more Idiots vii. 64 When a federale they've got on the payroll screws the pooch, the corpse will turn up with a yellow ribbon wrapped around its neck. < as lemmas |
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