单词 | tourist trap |
释义 | > as lemmastourist trap tourist trap n. (a) a type of object sold to tourists at an excessively high price; (b) a place where tourists are exploited. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods sold to tourists tourist trap1939 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > holiday-making or tourism > [noun] > place where tourists are exploited tourist trap1939 honeypot1967 1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads iv. 117 Different stations had their different tourist traps—at Apizaco hideous hand~painted clubs..at Rinconada little grey stone mortars. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xxvii. 241 The Oubliette Rouge was a small tourist-trap..where..the drinks were watered to such an extent that temperance was automatically accomplished. 1967 O. Wynd Walk Softly x. 157 The village..[was] now a tourist trap almost entirely given over to eating houses and souvenir shops. 1981 C. Storr Vicky xiv. 99 Vicky's eye was caught by something in one of the tourist-trap shop windows. < as lemmas |
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