2016年7月7日 星期四

touch-and-go and flathatting

touch-and-go and flathatting

"At least Gove has achieved his repeatedly stated ambition of not wanting to be prime minister. It looked touch-and-go for a bit."


Wielding the traitor’s knife again and again, you certainly achieved your…
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I could sometimes see in his face that he thought it was touch and go.




touch-and-go 

Pronunciation:


ADJECTIVE

(Of an outcome, especially one that is desired) possible but very uncertain:it was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it overturned

NOUN (plural touch-and-goes)

manoeuvre in which an aircraft touches the ground as in landing and immediately takes off again:tried a few touch-and-goes


touch-and-go INFORMAL
describes a situation which is uncertain:
The doctor says that it's touch-and-go whether Mary will be okay.


flathat (FLAT-hat)

verb intr.: To fly close to the ground.

flat-hat (fltht)
intr.v. flat-hat·tedflat-hat·tingflat-hats
To fly an airplane close to the ground and at a high or dangerous speed.

不顧死活地低飛?

Etymology
From the allusion to a plane flying so low as to flatten a hat on someone's head. Earliest documented use: 1940.

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