“show、me”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

show-me

释义

show-me, attrib. phr. U.S.
[show v.]
That demands demonstration; believing only on clear evidence, extremely sceptical. (Orig. used to describe the people of Missouri: see Missouri 2.)
1909N.Y. Even. Post (semi-weekly ed.) 19 Apr. 88 Everything indicative of the ‘show-me’ State of Missouri.1909R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 283 He belonged to the show-me club.1933Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 6/1 These administrators are going to spend a great deal of their time..trying to get money from Secretary Ickes, who appears to be a show-me man.1949Manch. Guardian Weekly 20 Oct. 2 A typically materialistic ‘show-me’ American.1978J. Updike Coup (1979) i. 37 The premature gray and show-me squint of these Yankees is muddled in with their something eternally puerile, awkward, winning, and hopeful.

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