on one's uppers 的定义
- Poor, in reduced circumstances, as in as in The Smiths try to hide the fact that they're on their uppers. First recorded in 1886, this metaphoric term alludes to having worn out the soles of one's shoes so badly that only the top portions remain.
on one's uppers 近义词
等同于 necessitous
on one's uppers 的近义词 37 个
- bad off
- bankrupt
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind eight ball
- broke
- destitute
- dirt poor
- down-and-out
- empty-handed
- flat
- flat broke
- fortuneless
- hard up
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in need
- in want
- indigent
- insolvent
- low
- meager
- moneyless
- needy
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- poverty-stricken
- reduced
- scanty
- stone broke
- strapped
- suffering
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unprosperous
更多on one's uppers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.
- The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
- 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.
- 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.
- Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.