英语词汇“to sit up like jacky”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Australian and New Zealand. to sit up like Jacky (and variants): to sit up straight or with confidence; to behave properly.Sometimes perhaps with reference to the naivety or ingenuousness which some stereotypical representations present as characteristic of Australian Aboriginal people; cf. sense 3a.

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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > upright

to sit upa1535

to sit up1848

to sit up like Jacky1918

to sit tall1976

1918 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Sun 22 May Sitting up there like Jackie, with every body gaping at you, don't suit me.

1923 Brisbane Courier 17 Nov. 18/9 We are told we can't walk or motor into love, or just sit up like Jacky and let love come to us.

1939 Dubbo (Austral.) Liberal 12 Dec. 4/3 The Inspector added that he believed in discipline, not that discipline which meant ‘sitting up like Jacky’ in the class, but doing a job as it should be done.

1947 P. Newton Wayleggo 106 To sit there like Jacky in front of a mob of grinning, barracking station hands..made me feel a perfect fool.

1981 L. Marriott Life in Gorge 49 The sight of Avery, sitting up like Jackie, trundling up the road..without a clue how close to death he had been, didn't seem to make us feel any better.

2004 Canberra Times (Nexis) 29 Jan. a16 This made the journos sit up like Jacky.

单词	to sit up like jacky
释义	> as lemmas to sit up like Jacky b. Australian and New Zealand. to sit up like Jacky (and variants): to sit up straight or with confidence; to behave properly.Sometimes perhaps with reference to the naivety or ingenuousness which some stereotypical representations present as characteristic of Australian Aboriginal people; cf. sense 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > upright to sit upa1535 to sit up1848 to sit up like Jacky1918 to sit tall1976 1918 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Sun 22 May Sitting up there like Jackie, with every body gaping at you, don't suit me. 1923 Brisbane Courier 17 Nov. 18/9 We are told we can't walk or motor into love, or just sit up like Jacky and let love come to us. 1939 Dubbo (Austral.) Liberal 12 Dec. 4/3 The Inspector added that he believed in discipline, not that discipline which meant ‘sitting up like Jacky’ in the class, but doing a job as it should be done. 1947 P. Newton Wayleggo 106 To sit there like Jacky in front of a mob of grinning, barracking station hands..made me feel a perfect fool. 1981 L. Marriott Life in Gorge 49 The sight of Avery, sitting up like Jackie, trundling up the road..without a clue how close to death he had been, didn't seem to make us feel any better. 2004 Canberra Times (Nexis) 29 Jan. a16 This made the journos sit up like Jacky. extracted from Jackyn. < as lemmas
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