like a shot 的定义
- Very rapidly, as in When they asked for volunteers, he raised his hand like a shot. This expression alludes to the rapidity of gunfire. [Colloquial; late 1800s]
like a shot 近义词
等同于 on the double
等同于 promptly
等同于 quickly
等同于 rapidly
等同于 fast
更多like a shot例句
- The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
- The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
- The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.
- There was no fighting; a rifle shot now and then from the crests where we saw our fellows clearly.
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.
- Dockier, a prominent leader of the Levelers, in the times of the English commonwealth, was shot by order of the government.
- May looked along at the dimpled grace, And then at the saint-like, fair old face, “How funny!”