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catty-corner

/kat-i-kawr-nerd, kat-ee-, kat-er-/US // ˈkæt ɪˌkɔr nərd, ˈkæt i-, ˈkæt ər- //UK // (ˈkætəˌkɔːnəd) //

拐角处,斤斤计较的角落,斤角,斤斤计较

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : diagonal.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : diagonally.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.

  • But they do put it right around the corner near the time the video was shot.

  • They work in a world filled with a sense—real or imagined—of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway.

  • They were racing toward the corner of Tompkins and Myrtle avenues with Johnson at the wheel when another call came over the radio.

  • They have pushed into just about every other corner of the Caribbean and Central America where airports exist.

  • But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.

  • Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.

  • As Davy stood in the road, in doubt which way to go, a Roc came around the corner of the house.

  • Now, he chose a small table in a corner of the balcony, close to the glass screen.

  • The conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.