| 单词 | to pin a person's ears back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pin a person's ears back a. U.S. colloquial. to pin a person's ears back: to defeat a person; to chastise or rebuke a person. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] reprovec1330 sniba1400 reprehend?a1439 expostulate1574 to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584 give it1594 reprimand1681 to pin a person's ears back1861 yell1886 to jump down a person's throat1916 to chew (a person's) ass1946 to slap (a person) down1960 1861 Southern Literary Messenger Oct. 311/1 All you got to do is take his shoes off and pin back his ears, and I'll eat him 'fore the cumpny. 1936 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 29 Aug. 10/6 The Brownies had pinned their ears back 8-1 in the opener with a 15-hit attack. 1949 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite ix. 160 His manner that of a man who has had his ears pinned back. 2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 273/3 Baldrige had endured having her ‘ears pinned back’..by Jackie one too many times. < as lemmas |
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