| 释义 |
(one's) gorge rises (at something) (one's) gorge rises (at something)One is disgusted or sickened (by something). The "gorge" is the stomach; the phrase comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet. I could never be a doctor. Blood, vomit, open wounds—my gorge rises at all that kind of stuff. Her gorge rose listening to the senator's weak public apology following the scandal.See also: gorge, riseyour gorge rises you are sickened or disgusted. Gorge is an obsolete term from falconry, meaning ‘a meal for a hawk’; from this derives the more general sense of ‘the contents of the stomach’.See also: gorge, rise |