| 单词 | on sufferance |
| 释义 | on sufferanceBarely tolerated; agreed to but unwillingly. For example, They rarely put a non-academic on the panel, so obviously I was there on sufferance. This expression uses sufferance in the sense of “toleration,” a usage obsolete except in this idiom. [Mid-1500s] Words nearby on sufferanceon spec, onstage, on standby, on-stream, on strike, on sufferance, ont-, on tap, on-target, Ontarian, Ontario The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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