| 单词 | spare tire |
| 释义 | spare tireSEE SYNONYMS FOR spare tire ON THESAURUS.COM nouna tire used or kept available as an emergency replacement on a vehicle. Informal. excess fat around the waistline. Origin of spare tireFirst recorded in 1920–25 Words nearby spare tirespare part, spare-part surgery, sparerib, spareribs, spare the rod and spoil the child, spare tire, spare tyre, sparganoma, sparganosis, sparge, sparid Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Idioms and Phrases with spare tirespare tire Fat around one's middle, as in He's determined to lose ten pounds and that spare tire he's acquired. This expression transfers the term for an extra tire carried in cars in case of a flat tire to excess fat around the waist. [Colloquial; mid-1900s] 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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