| 单词 | shore up |
| 释义 | shore upSEE SYNONYMS FOR shore up ON THESAURUS.COM Support, prop, as in The new law was designed to shore up banks in danger of failure. This expression derives from the noun shore, meaning “prop,” a beam or timber propped against a structure to provide support. The verb shore dates from 1340 and was first recorded in a figurative context in 1581. Words nearby shore upshoreless, shoreline, shore patrol, shoreside, shore terrace, shore up, Shoreview, shoreward, shoreweed, Shorewood, shoring 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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