| 单词 | spring on someone |
| 释义 | spring on someonePresent or make known unexpectedly, as in They sprung the news of their engagement on the family last night. This idiom uses spring in the sense of “make a sudden move.” Mark Twain used it in Tom Sawyer (1876): “Old Mr. Jones is going to try to spring something on the people here tonight.” Words nearby spring on someonespring-loaded, springlock, spring mattress, Spring Mountains, spring onion, spring on someone, spring peeper, spring roll, Springs, spring snow, Springsteen 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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