单词 | city slicker |
释义 | city slicker From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcity slickerˌcity ˈslicker noun [countable]EXPERIENCEDsomeone who lives and works in a city and has no experience of anything outside it – often used to show disapprovalExamples from the Corpuscity slicker• Once you get accustomed to life on the range, it's hard to go back to being a city slicker.Origin city slicker (1900-2000) slicker from slick “to deceive cleverly” ((19-20 centuries)), from SLICK1 |
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