| 单词 | land somebody with something |
| 释义 | land somebody with something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishland somebody with something phrasal verb informalGIVEto give someone something unpleasant to do, because no one else wants to do itMaria’s been landed with all the tidying up as usual.Grammar Land with is usually passive. → land→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusland with • In 1977,24 million households, with a total population of 114 million, each had less than 0.4 hectares of land.• In the case of such deposits the rule that writing is required for the creation of interests in land is dispensed with.• San Francisco is only prevented from being an island by a very small strip of land.• In July 1346 he landed in Normandy with an army of perhaps some 15,000 men.• The company had moved fast since landing at Portsmouth with King Henry late in October.• We all land safely with no real casualties other than the odd jaundiced expression. |
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