英语词汇“built like a brick house”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P5. slang (originally U.S.). built like a brick house (also brick outhouse, brick shithouse) and variants: having a very solid physique; spec. (a) (esp. of a man) having a robust and powerful build; (b) (of a woman) having a curvaceous figure, esp. one with a slim waist and large, prominent breasts.In earlier use a number of different structures are used in analogy. Later, once the form built like a brick shithouse became standard, variants are usually euphemistic. This form is occasionally abbreviated to brick shithouse, etc., denoting a person of this build. Cf. also brick house n. 2.

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1892 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 July 12/5 Old Roaney, mother says, was big in the girth and short in the couplin and built like a brick wall from the ground up.

1903 Texan (Univ. Texas, Austin) 7 Oct. His weight doesn't indicate his strength, for he is built like a brick house.

1912 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 3 Oct. 8/5 She is 16 and pretty: she is built like a brick wall.

1922 J. Tully Emmett Lawler 286 Every time I fight him my hands are swollen for a week. He's built like a brick schoolhouse.

1933 J. Conroy Disinherited ii. i. 91 Wilma's a baby doll, built like a brick outhouse.

1949 E. Birney Turvey 127 Built like brick shathouses they was too.

1964 R. F. Mirvish There you Are 222 The Sicilian babe... Small, stacked like a brick shithouse.

1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 269 The driver is a hostile brick shithouse.

1999 New Eng. Rev. Spring 139 Detective Flynn..has trouble concentrating on anything besides Goity's sumptuous bust... Built like a brick shithouse, he thinks.

2001 T. Parsons One for my Baby xxix. 244 I was nuts about him. My Jamie. Tall, dark, built like a brick house.

单词	built like a brick house
释义	> as lemmas built like a brick house (also brick outhouse, brick shithouse) P5. slang (originally U.S.). built like a brick house (also brick outhouse, brick shithouse) and variants: having a very solid physique; spec. (a) (esp. of a man) having a robust and powerful build; (b) (of a woman) having a curvaceous figure, esp. one with a slim waist and large, prominent breasts.In earlier use a number of different structures are used in analogy. Later, once the form built like a brick shithouse became standard, variants are usually euphemistic. This form is occasionally abbreviated to brick shithouse, etc., denoting a person of this build. Cf. also brick house n. 2. ΚΠ 1892 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 July 12/5 Old Roaney, mother says, was big in the girth and short in the couplin and built like a brick wall from the ground up. 1903 Texan (Univ. Texas, Austin) 7 Oct. His weight doesn't indicate his strength, for he is built like a brick house. 1912 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 3 Oct. 8/5 She is 16 and pretty: she is built like a brick wall. 1922 J. Tully Emmett Lawler 286 Every time I fight him my hands are swollen for a week. He's built like a brick schoolhouse. 1933 J. Conroy Disinherited ii. i. 91 Wilma's a baby doll, built like a brick outhouse. 1949 E. Birney Turvey 127 Built like brick shathouses they was too. 1964 R. F. Mirvish There you Are 222 The Sicilian babe... Small, stacked like a brick shithouse. 1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 269 The driver is a hostile brick shithouse. 1999 New Eng. Rev. Spring 139 Detective Flynn..has trouble concentrating on anything besides Goity's sumptuous bust... Built like a brick shithouse, he thinks. 2001 T. Parsons One for my Baby xxix. 244 I was nuts about him. My Jamie. Tall, dark, built like a brick house. extracted from brickn.¹adj.¹ < as lemmas
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