| 单词 | footloose |
| 释义 | footloose (once / 42980 pages) adj If you’re footloose, you're single and free to roam, like a dog off the leash. You can go where you want and do as you please. Go you. You might even want to dance, like the teens in the 1984 movie Footloose. Being footloose is being free of obligations — no job, pet, house, schoolwork, or sweetheart to hold you down. A footloose and fancy-free person might take a year off after high school just to wander. You'll often find footloose in the phrase "footloose and fancy-free." In the 17th century, footloose meant literally "with feet unshackled." WORD FAMILYfootloose USAGE EXAMPLESThis meant there was a profound change in the relative bargaining power between the two – away from organized labor and toward a footloose capital. Salon(Nov 30, 2016) Most celebrated the unmarried foursome getting bleary-eyed and footloose. Golf Digest(Oct 25, 2016) The most obvious are the wrenching dislocations created by a world of impatient capital, footloose labor and intricate cross-border supply chains. Wall Street Journal(Oct 21, 2016) adj free to go or do as one pleases Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on a footloose young man eager to see the big city Syn free able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint |
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