单词	curbstone
释义	curbstone /ˈkəːbstəʊn / noun North American 1 variant spelling of kerbstone.Brezhnev, who finally helped unseat him, recalled that Khrushchev had once called his Kremlin colleagues "dogs peeing on curbstones."... One of them is a construction worker who can unload heavy curbstones by hand. Many towns are installing crisp new granite curbstones along their streets to replace the crumbling concrete that replaced earlier granite curbstones. 1.1 [as modifier] informal Unqualified; amateur: curbstone commentators... Even in their first meeting on the street, he practically glows when referring to her ‘curbstone English, the English that will keep her all her days in the gutter.’ I was also amazed that only one poll takes precautions against the ‘curbstone’ problem - which is when the interviewers just make the results up.
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