miss the boat

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miss the boat 的定义

  1. Fail to take advantage of an opportunity, as in Jean missed the boat on that club membership. This expression, which alludes to not being in time to catch a boat, has been applied more widely since the 1920s.

miss the boat 近义词

miss the boat

等同于 mistake

miss the boat

等同于 miscarry

miss the boat

等同于 fail

更多miss the boat例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  4. Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.
  5. So, why no Jewess in the mix of more recent and diverse Miss Americas?
  6. But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
  7. But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.
  8. The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
  9. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  10. He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.