| 单词 | to sit down on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit down (hard) on 10. intransitive. Originally U.S. to sit down (hard) on: to denounce severely, to reject (a proposal); to snub (a person). Cf. to sit on —— 8 at Phrasal verbs 2. Now rare. ΚΠ 1874 Cleveland (Ohio) Daily Herald 23 June 4/3 Congress has sat down hard on the independent government of the District... Washington is flattened out. 1885 Outing Sept. 697 But, my dear, that sounds very much like the rudeness which you gentlemen call ‘sitting down on people’. 1904 Boston Advertiser 5 Nov. 4 He sat down hard on the proposition that Canada should meet a penny of the ‘imperial’ expenses. 1984 Financial Times 17 May 2/8 The nimble-minded Premier had dreamed up a ‘wizard wheeze’... Washington is said to have sat down hard on this one. < as lemmas |
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