hold no brief for 的定义
- Refuse to support, dislike, as in I hold no brief for liars. This term is a negative version of the legal expression hold a brief for, meaning “to support or defend a position by argument.” The noun brief has been used in this way since the 1200s.
hold no brief for 近义词
等同于 discountenance
更多hold no brief for例句
- Blacks would hold about 13 percent of the seats and Latinos 17 percent.
- Tomorrow they should hold placards of the cartoons Charlie Hebdo had printed.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Yeah, the “Giant man-puppy” that is Gronkowski won't hold a sexual candle to the blue-eyed dreamboat.
- But how much they have regained or how durable their hold is remains unclear.
- Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
- He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
- Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
- As Perker said this, he looked towards the door, with an evident desire to render the leave-taking as brief as possible.
- And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.