单词 | potboiler |
释义 | potboiler (once / 66030 pages) n WORD FAMILY potboiler: potboilers USAGE EXAMPLESShe coped with isolation by running up a three-thousand-dollar-a-month phone bill and reading everything from potboilers to the pillars of the Western canon. The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016) The potboiler “Life on the Line” salutes the folks who risk serious injury every day to keep our power flowing. Los Angeles Times(Nov 17, 2016) Movie review of “The Charnel House”: This predictable but polished horror potboiler has an interesting take on the doppelgänger theme. Seattle Times(Nov 02, 2016) n a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot) Hyper literary composition, literary work imaginative or creative writing |
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