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Gaudy Adjective 形容詞
Synonyms (同義語)
Usage (用例・用法)
Gaudy billboards sprout out in town.
Mary puts on a gaudy dress.
Marilyn looks gaudy.
We happened to enter an overpriced restaurant with lackluster food
and gaudy memorabilia from some so-called “stars”.
Kitsch is a work of art that is
shallow, pretentious, gaudy, without substance,
or calculated to have popular appeal.
Go postal Verb phrase 動詞句
Synonyms (同義語)
Etymology (言葉の起こり) 1986年8月20日に米国オクラホマ州エドモンド市の郵便配達員 Patrick Henry Sherrill が上司から「もっとよく働かなければ解雇する」と脅されたことにムカッと来て、同僚14人を殺害した事件から。 もっと詳しい事件の内容を知りたいならば、下のガンマンの絵をクリックしてください。 Usage (用例・用法)
After he lost his job, he went postal. He returned to the office with a gun and shot the manager. 元々の postal は、「郵便(局)の」、「郵送の」という意味を持つ形容詞です。次のように使われます。
The postal worker lost his temper when the stamp machine broke.
John lost the postal address of his ex-girlfriend. 上の用例は、addressだけを使ってもよいのですが、addressには、上の意味の他に「演説」「式辞」という意味があります。 この場合には次のように使われます。
President Bush made an address when he secretly visited the GI camp in Iraq.
in a groove Adverb phrase (副詞句)
Synonyms (同義語)
Usage (用例・用法)
If the same song keeps repeating, we must be stuck in a groove.
Because I beat the rice into rice cake so many times, the whole process got into a groove
Since we did the same exercise over and over again, we dropped into a groove
The exercise ran in a groove.
in the groove Adverb phrase (副詞句)
Synonyms (同義語)
Usage (用例・用法)
That hair style is back in the groove.
Singing while playing the guitar, Johnny was totally in the groove during the show.
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