| 单词 | to wipe off a person's or one's face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wipe (an expression, esp. a smile) off a person's or one's face h. to wipe (an expression, esp. a smile) off a person's or one's face: (to cause him) to cease showing it. slang. ΚΠ 1567 [see sense 6d]. 1895 J. Conrad Almayer's Folly xii. 256 A face from which all feelings and all expression are suddenly wiped off by the hand of unexpected death. 1898 [see sense 6c]. 1935 Time 24 June 28/1 Wipe dat smile offen his face! 1936 D. Carnegie How to win Friends ii. ii. 99 Bill, you are going to wipe the scowl off that sour puss of yours today. 1972 D. S. Viscott Making of Psychiatrist ii. 37 Terry O'Conner seemed to think it was funny but wiped the smile off her face every time her eye caught Larry's. 1977 Observer 14 Aug. 3/7 Only one sentence would have wiped the smile off Mason's face. 1978 G. Greene Human Factor vi. i. 305 She realised she was smiling at the telephone—thank God, they hadn't yet invented a visual telephone, but all the same she wiped the smile off her face. < as lemmas |
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