monkey on one's back 的定义
- Drug addiction, as in He'd had a monkey on his back for at least two years. [Slang; first half of 1900s]
monkey on one's back 近义词
等同于 encumbrance
monkey on one's back 的近义词 17 个
- albatross
- cross
- debt
- duty
- guilt
- handicap
- hindrance
- impediment
- load
- millstone
- obstruction
- responsibility
- saddle
- weight
- worry
- ball and chain
- thorn in one's side
monkey on one's back 的反义词 8 个
更多monkey on one's back例句
- Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
- In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
- Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
- Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
- Think back to the Bush-Kerry race of 2004, the Thrilla in Vanilla.
- Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
- He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
- There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
- I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
- Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.