monkey on one's back

背上的猴子背负的猴子背上的猴儿背上的猴头

monkey on one's back 的定义

  1. 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

monkey on one's back

等同于 encumbrance

更多monkey on one's back例句

  1. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  5. Think back to the Bush-Kerry race of 2004, the Thrilla in Vanilla.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
  10. 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.