| 单词 | what's cooking? |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhat's cooking? 9. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To happen, to be going on; to be under way. Usually in the progressive, esp. in what's cooking?: ‘what's going on?’, ‘what's happening?’. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] becomec888 i-tidec888 falleOE ywortheOE i-limp975 belimpOE i-timeOE worthOE tidea1131 goa1200 arearc1275 syec1275 betide1297 fere1297 risea1350 to come aboutc1350 overcomea1382 passa1393 comea1400 to come in (also to, on, etc.) placea1400 eschew?a1400 chevec1400 shapec1400 hold1462 to come (also go) to pass1481 proceed?1518 occura1522 bechance1527 overpass1530 sorta1535 succeed1537 adventurec1540 to fall toc1540 success1545 to fall forth1569 fadge1573 beword?1577 to fall in1578 happen1580 event1590 arrive1600 offer1601 grow1614 fudge1615 incur1626 evene1654 obvene1654 to take place1770 transpire1775 to go on1873 to show up1879 materialize1885 break1914 cook1932 to go down1946 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [phrase] > what's happening? what's cooking?1932 gwan1945 1932 Cambridge (Mass.) Sentinel 7 May 8/3 What's cooking, ladies? A plot against the kind and loving Jeffersonian Democrats? 1942 R. Chandler High Window 70 It stopped at six, I got out, and the old man leaned out of the car to spit and said in a dull voice: ‘What's cookin'?’ 1942 Washington Post 18 Oct. l8/2 Plenty cookin' these weeks, chillun. To wit: Sonny Dunham at the Roosevelt, [etc.]. 1943 Boys' Life July 22/4 The line crews watched and speculated. Something big was cooking; something big was going to break. 1973 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 5 July a5/4 There is a federal regulation requiring planes to be at least 1000 feet over cities. I often see our small Albuquerque police plane at lower altitudes over the city. What cooks? 1996 A. Ghosh Calcutta Chromosome (1997) xv. 105 They can't exactly walk up to him and say, ‘Hey there, Ron, what's cooking?’ < as lemmas |
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