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单词 to sign on the dotted line
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to sign on the dotted line
P1. to sign on the dotted line and variants: to sign a document, esp. a contract, thereby indicating acceptance of its terms; (figurative) to agree fully or formally to something.
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the mind > language > statement > assent > [verb (intransitive)] > fully or formally
to sign on the dotted line1901
1901 Insurance Press 7 Aug. 10/2 Look at the applicant sign ‘on the dotted line’—and keep cool.
1937 Daily Herald 5 Feb. 19/7 When the [football] talk was of transfer and things, and when Childs..had just signed on the dotted line for Luton.
1958 Times 13 Oct. 11/6 Far from being content to ‘sign on the dotted line’ he [sc. King George VI] insists on knowing why.
1994 States News Service (Nexis) 27 Sept. This is frankly a pretty revolutionary step that Republicans have taken. We've signed our names on the dotted line making a commitment that we're going to have a vote on term limits.
2005 J. M. Coetzee Slow Man ii. 5 Do I have your consent? I am not going to ask you to sign on the dotted line, but do we have your consent to proceed?
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