| 单词 | trolley rage |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrolley rage c. As the second element in compounds: denoting an outburst of esp. pent-up anger and aggression triggered by a specific incident; esp. denoting unprovoked violence or aggression against someone who is perceived to have behaved in a careless, dangerous, or antagonistic manner, in pavement rage, trolley rage, etc.; see road rage n., roid rage n. at roid n. Compounds. Attested earliest in roid rage, but in later compounds frequently after road rage. ΚΠ 1987 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 21 July d7 Anabolic steroids..do create psychological effects. You hear references to 'Roid Rage. 1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times 2 Apr. b1/3 A fit of ‘road rage’ has landed a man in jail, accused of shooting a woman passenger who's [sic] car had ‘cut him off’ on the highway. 1995 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 30 July But after road rage and trolley rage, where a shopper attacked someone who complained about queue-jumping, could we soon be seeing ‘cash machine rage’? 1996 Guardian 27 Aug. 14/5 The audible car alarm has become an appalling blight on our urban existence... It is beyond time for legislation banning these obsolete accessories before we have a case of alarm rage. 1997 Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 17 Aug. A schoolboy was throttled by a man in a ‘golf rage’ attack... [He] was attacked when he went to apologise to a family after his golf ball narrowly missed them. 1998 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 30 July I shudder to think what would happen were Bristol to become a cycle-only zone—cycle rage and accidents would become commonplace. 2001 Leicester Mercury (Electronic ed.) 10 Jan. Ignorance, bad attitude and pavement rage seems to be the in thing. < as lemmas |
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