单词 | uh-oh |
释义 | uh-ohint. Originally U.S. Expressing alarm, dismay, or apprehension; esp. indicating sudden awareness of a problem, or a realization of imminent difficulty.Often as a more or less involuntary utterance to oneself. ΚΠ 1925 Amarillo (Texas) Globe 3 June 9/6 Uh-oh, I forgot to reserve my seat to Mo-jica. 1930 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 19 Aug. 5/1 (cartoon caption) Uh-oh! 1941 M. K. O'Donnell Quincie Bolliver iii. 90 The clap of thunder..seemed to rock the house. The light globe paled. A woman said: ‘Uh-oh! they're goin' out!’ 1960 Life 11 Jan. 92/1 (advt.) Uh-oh! watch those lips! What's in the wind?—trouble, plenty of trouble for lips exposed to wind and cold and sleet. Use your 'Chap Stick'—use it fast. 1982 A. Lane & W. Crawford Vals (film script for ‘Valley Girls’, rev. draft) 17 Stacey. How can you love a dork? Uh-oh..don't look now. Guess who? Julie. He's a total pukoid. 2009 New Yorker 19 Jan. 26/2 A high-school marching band.., wearing Polish folk costumes, was disembarking from a tour bus with a clatter of drums and cymbals. ‘Uh-oh,’ Wolitzer said anxiously. ‘Oompah music—just what we needed.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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