| 单词 | to throw one's weight about or around |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto throw (chuck, etc.) one's weight about or around c. In figurative phrases. to pull (one's) weight: see pull v. Phrases 10; to throw (chuck, etc.) one's weight about or around: to assert oneself or one's authority, esp. in an objectionable way; to act officiously. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (intransitive)] > assert authority officiously to throw (chuck, etc.) one's weight about or around1917 the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > be or become arrogant [verb (intransitive)] cock1542 swagger1600 domineer1607 fluster1698 to throw (chuck, etc.) one's weight about or around1917 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 37 The vastnesse of their Empire, falling with his owne weight. 1794 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 395 We have seen such a system fall by its own weight. 1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step 31 Don't chuck your weight about until you've been up the line and learnt something. 1921 Brit. Weekly 6 Oct. 2/3 There was a general..belief that people round us were not pulling their weight. 1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment viii. 104 Some typically stupid English General..was clearly throwing his weight about, as they say, without any real understanding of anything. 1926 S. Jameson Three Kingdoms xii. 348 ‘Come to that,’ he said, ‘Isabel has more right than any of you to fling her weight about.’ 1941 J. P. Marquand H. M. Pulham, Esq. i. 10 Bill King..always used to say that Bo-jo was a bastard, a big bastard. Perhaps he meant that Bo-jo sometimes threw his weight around. 1955 E. Hillary High Adventure 163 A big, strong, swanking chap who had thrown his weight about a good deal lower down. 1966 N. Marsh Death at Dolphin (1967) vi. 145 Why hadn't he put his foot down?.. He should have thrown his weight about. 1982 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel & Staghound xv. 176 Madame Rensselaer seemed to enjoy throwing her weight about. < as lemmas |
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