on a string 的定义
- Under someone's control, as in She'll drop everything whenever Sam asks for something—he's got her on a string. This expression, alluding to pulling an animal on a leash, dates from the late 1500s, when it was put as in a string.
on a string 近义词
等同于 obedient
on a string 的近义词 40 个
- attentive
- compliant
- deferential
- devoted
- docile
- dutiful
- faithful
- law-abiding
- loyal
- respectful
- subservient
- acquiescent
- amenable
- at one's beck and call
- biddable
- complaisant
- controllable
- docious
- duteous
- governable
- honoring
- in one's clutches
- in one's pocket
- in one's power
- obeisant
- obliging
- observant
- pliant
- regardful
- resigned
- reverential
- sheeplike
- tame
- tractable
- under control
- venerating
- well-trained
- willing
- wrapped around finger
- yielding
on a string 的反义词 12 个
等同于 beholden
更多on a string例句
- Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
- It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
- Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
- All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
- Urinary sediments may be studied under three heads: A. Unorganized sediments.