单词 | to tease on to |
释义 | > as lemmasto tease on to e. to tease out (figurative): to extract, get out, obtain, esp. by painstaking effort. Also to tease on to. ΚΠ 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 17 There was a time when Pirandello could tease a comedy of pain out of six characters in search of an author. 1971 Language 47 525 It is only by the most careful discrimination that we are able to tease out the critical referential features from the mass of inferential stuff that surrounds them in normal speech. 1974 J. A. Michener Centennial x. 580 He was struck with how easy life was in Pennsylvania and how brutally difficult in Colorado, where you had to dig a ditch twenty miles before you could tease a little water onto your land. < as lemmas |
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