释义 |
abracadabra /ˌabrəkəˈdabrə /exclamationA word said by conjurors when performing a magic trick.The fairy moved her magic stick and - abracadabra!...- Charisma, love and magic and abracadabra, Gemma's not on booze, Ahmed is polite to his car maintenance teacher and Wayne has left his knife at home.
- A person who is unaware of the phenomenon of magnetism could be fooled by a magician who presents lodestone as a ‘magic rock,’ perhaps as a formerly ordinary rock made magical by saying the word abracadabra.
Synonyms hocus-pocus, open sesame; mumbo jumbo noun [mass noun] informal1Language used to give the impression of arcane knowledge or power: I get so fed up with all the mumbo jumbo and abracadabra...- Waitrose wielded its article like a magic wand, and with a little abracadabra, hey presto!
- The abracadabra of war against terrorism found support from the BJP government.
- Why, then, has the pseudo-skeptical pseudo-scientist who so pusillanimously shied away from revealing his name posted the quoted abracadabra as a supposed ‘review’ of my book?
1.1The implausibly easy performance of difficult feats: the creation of profits was a marvellous bit of abracadabra...- It was on account of the chairman's abracadabra that we were all rolling around drunk with wealth, tossing greenbacks in the air in nouveau riche ecstasy.
- Speaking of Abracadabra, I would like to focus on the expression "the magics of bookmaking."
- Despite a title suggesting it delivers a spot of abracadabra, The Conjuring pulls no rabbits out of hats.
OriginLate 17th century (as a mystical word engraved and used as a charm to ward off illness): from Latin, first recorded in a 2nd-century poem by Q. Serenus Sammonicus, from a Greek base. These days abracadabra is just a fun word said by magicians as they do a trick, but formerly it was much more serious—a magic word that was supposed to be a charm against fever and was often engraved on an amulet worn around the neck. Abracadabra was written so that it formed a triangle, beginning with ‘A’ on the first line, ‘AB’ on the second, and so on. It ultimately goes back to ancient times, first recorded in a Latin poem of the 2nd century ad. See also presto at prestige
RhymesAldabra |