draw straws

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draw straws 的定义

  1. Also, draw lots. Decide by a lottery using straws of different lengths. For example, Let's draw straws to see who will write the first draft. The lots version dates from the 1400s, whereas straws dates from the 1800s. Both have replaced the still older draw cuts. Another variant is draw the short straw, meaning to be the one so selected for a particular task.

draw straws 近义词

draw straws

等同于 cast lots

draw straws 的近义词 2

更多draw straws例句

  1. In Dresden, Germany, anti-Islam rallies each week draw thousands of demonstrators.
  2. Anyone who tries to draw attention to threats instead of quietly burying them is worsening the problem.
  3. Sting took over the lead role to try to draw an audience, but his thumpingly inspirational score was already the hero of the show.
  4. In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.
  5. Neither officer had “the opportunity to draw their weapons,” according to police reports.
  6. It was one of those long moments that makes a fellow draw his breath sharp when he thinks about it afterward.
  7. Instead of writing slander and flat blasphemy, they propose to draw it, and not draw it mild.
  8. It seems hardly possible to draw a more graphic picture of the blessings diffused by the balmy plant, than that just given.
  9. I only draw your attention to the facts; which have been sufficiently patent to the world, whatever Lord Hartledon may think.
  10. They heard how in the early spring in the meadow by the mill-dam Tim and I had stopped our ploughs to draw lots and he had lost.