英语词汇“nancy story”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

nancy story

noun West Indian

1A traditional African folk tale about Anancy the spider, who overcomes others by cunning.So for me, nancy stories have always had a humorous air of winking at the audience, as though the storyteller's saying, ‘we all know people like this, but let's not name any names.’...

Only Mike and nancy stories are consistently worth watching for.

1.1An elaborate evasive story or lie: the minister had left the country and so could not give his side of the nancy story...

‘I do not find it strange that he and his kind will seek to create his own nancy stories.’

1.2A superstitious belief: God is a nancy story, you hear

Origin

Nancy, shortening of Anancy, from Akan ananse 'spider'.

单词	nancy story
释义	nancy story noun West Indian 1A traditional African folk tale about Anancy the spider, who overcomes others by cunning.So for me, nancy stories have always had a humorous air of winking at the audience, as though the storyteller's saying, ‘we all know people like this, but let's not name any names.’... Only Mike and nancy stories are consistently worth watching for. 1.1An elaborate evasive story or lie: the minister had left the country and so could not give his side of the nancy story... ‘I do not find it strange that he and his kind will seek to create his own nancy stories.’ 1.2A superstitious belief: God is a nancy story, you hear Origin Nancy, shortening of Anancy, from Akan ananse 'spider'.
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