cry uncle 的定义
- Also, say uncle. Concede defeat, as in The Serbs want the Bosnians to cry uncle, or If you say uncle right now, I'll let you go first in the next game. This phrase originated about 1900 as an imperative among school-children who would say, “Cry uncle when you've had enough.” By the mid-1900s it was being used figuratively, as in the examples.
cry uncle 近义词
to surrender
更多cry uncle例句
- “He turned pale, trembled to a great degree, was much agitated, and began to cry,” she told the court.
- The girls send a cry for help…the situation of these girls is distressing.
- Same with my uncle and cousins when their planes landed from Vietnam.
- Both the Ramos sons squeezed their eyes and lowered their heads, doing their best not to cry.
- The young Jordanian pilot comes from a well-known military family in the kingdom and his uncle is a retired major general.
- Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
- The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
- At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.
- I could have sworn I heard a cry, and one of my men spoke in a tone that assured me my imagination had not been playing a trick.
- A sob rose in her throat, and broke from her lips transformed into a trembling, sharp, glad cry.