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单词 get (or be given) a guernsey
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get (or be given) a guernsey

Australian informal
1Be selected for a football team.Are any players from the pre-existing teams in this League trying to get a guernsey in this new tele-team?...
  • You've gotta have a go in the future, I'm aiming towards [the 2004 Olympic Games in] Athens and I'd love to get a guernsey and shoot in [the 2006 Commonwealth Games in] Melbourne.
1.1Gain recognition or approval.The news brigade were mostly old newspaper men, few women got a guernsey then, who distrusted radio techniques and thought the tape recorder was an instrument of the devil....
  • Orwell's 1984 predictably got a guernsey, and Animal Farm also apparently figured in the top 100.
  • Let's face it: many kids after reaching double-digit birthdays don't read a lot for pleasure and are more interested in television, computer games and physical activities, although information books get a guernsey.
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