drag over the coals 的 3 个定义
- a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel.Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- a piece of glowing, charred, or burned wood or other combustible substance.
- charcoal.
- to burn to coal or charcoal.
- to provide with coal.
- to take in coal for fuel.
drag over the coals 近义词
等同于 castigate
drag over the coals 的近义词 42 个
- berate
- censure
- chastise
- criticize
- excoriate
- flog
- lambaste
- lash
- penalize
- pummel
- punish
- rebuke
- reprimand
- scold
- upbraid
- baste
- beat
- blister
- cane
- chasten
- correct
- discipline
- drub
- flay
- rail
- rate
- ream
- scarify
- scorch
- scourge
- thrash
- whip
- bawl out
- chew out
- come down on
- dress down
- jump down one's throat
- lay out
- lean on
- read the riot act
- scathe
- tongue-lash
drag over the coals 的反义词 15 个
更多drag over the coals例句
- In some parts of the country right now that rely 60 percent or more for electricity generation on coal power, moving to electricity could increase GHG emissions.
- In 2019, more than 66 percent of the electricity in China was generated using coal power, which is a leading contributor to air pollution in China.
- In coal plants, supplying the coal accounts for about 40 percent of total expenses.
- More than 40 percent of coal mined in the United States comes from federal land, and in 2016, the Obama administration hit pause on coal leasing there, pending a review of the program.
- Not even Naunchik, who hails from a long lineage of union coal miners, aluminum millers, teachers, and machinists in western Pennsylvania, wants a work-stoppage strike to happen.
- Good governance would mean sticks and coal for too many of our favorite politicians.
- There was Milan Hruška, a fiery miner from the North Bohemian coal mines.
- Life can be tough in West Virginia, especially for the hardworking souls of coal country.
- He also says Rahall made millions off that “coal-killing” legislation, which is patently false.
- The aforementioned stories may very well be legitimate, but let's consider them a sort of canary in the coal mine.
- It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
- Of late, however, it has acquired a far greater interest through the discovery of coal underneath its surface.
- And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.
- An explosion took place in the Blackheath coal mines, Virginia; by which of the twenty-three workmen only one escaped death.
- But its use as such is to dispose of any such idea as that there is a natural price of coal or of anything else.