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单词 to pour it on
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to pour it on

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P1. [Compare classical Latin suffundere suffuse v.] to be poured on: to be overspread with something poured, to be suffused fully with. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > cover or suffuse > by pouring over
to be poured ona1500
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 33 (MED) Þe lecherovs men & louers of her lustes shul be poured on wiþ brenyng picche & stynkyng brymston.
P2. transitive. U.S. colloquial. to be unable to pour water (also piss, etc.) out of a boot and variants: to be unable to perform even the simplest task; to be stupid or incompetent.
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1912 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 26 Dec. Ivor is one vast compendium of useless wisdom, with hardly horse sense enough to pour water out of a boot.
1927 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 25 Mar. 13/6 He couldn't pour water out of a boot with directions printed on the heel.
1954 V. Randolph Pissing in Snow (1976) lxxxiii. 123 You've went and fucked a silly chore-boy, that don't know enough to pour piss out of a boot!
1976 J. F. Heath Decade of Disillusionm. vii. 233 The OAS couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
1999 Workforce 78 61/3 Rules and regulations designed for numbskulls who couldn't pour milk out of a boot with the directions printed on the heel.
P3. transitive. colloquial. to pour it on.
a. Originally and chiefly U.S. To do something vigorously, tenaciously, or with all one's might.
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1922 Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) 8 Mar. 10/8 Numerous taxpayers of this County..have suggested that we, in the vernacular of the baseball fan, ‘Pour It On’... Their suggestion is going to be followed until justice and right prevail.
1940 S. H. Holbrook Ethan Allen vii. 124 Rivington knew how to write for his side, and he poured it on in the Gazette's columns.
1980 Raging Bull (film script) 43 (stage direct.) He [sc. Joey] belts Jake with a left and a right to the jaw... Joey keeps pouring it on.
2003 W. E. Lankford Bike Path x. 57 I'd found a cadence I could maintain throughout my ride and with enough energy left over to really pour it on during the last two miles.
b. To flatter or cajole someone; to exaggerate, esp. in order to manipulate or persuade.
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1948 H. McCoy Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye ii. iii. 204 I started to tell her that..I was out hustling for her,..and really pour it on so she would feel guilty for accusing me falsely.
1958 B. Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond Some like it Hot (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 162 That's right—pour it on... Talk me out of it.
1969 N.Y. Times 2 Mar. 13 e/5 Even though this was rather less effusive than Mr. Nixon's prepared text, it was still..pouring it on aplenty.
1998 B. Morton Starting out in Evening iv. 10 She did want to see his study, and she did think of it as a sort of holy place—but she was also pouring it on thick.
P4. transitive. slang. to pour (the) coal to (or into): to cause (a vehicle, esp. an aircraft) to accelerate; to pilot an aircraft at high speed. Also to pour on the coal(s).
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > fly (in) an aircraft [verb (intransitive)] > at very high speed
to pour on the coal(s)1937
1937 E. C. Parsons Great Adventure xix. 233 I poured coal into the old Hispano and lit out like a scared jack rabbit.
1944 T. H. Wisdom Triumph over Tunisia xxiii. 183 The bombs gone away, Jimmy put the nose down and poured on the coal to escape.
1961 J. M. Foster Hell in Heavens 58 He poured the coal to his plane and banked to avoid passing too close.
2000 Ralph 7 July 141/1 To nail the perfect corner, rush in at about double your normal clip, point, pour on the coals and get ready to catch a hint of oversteer as the bum starts to step out under power.
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