on paper

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on paper 的定义

  1. In theory, hypothetically, as in Considering casualties, on paper the Americans won the Vietnam War, or They are a good team on paper but not so in the field. This metaphoric expression contrasts something written down with concrete reality. [Late 1700s]

on paper 近义词

adv. 副词 adverb

in theory

更多on paper例句

  1. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  2. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  3. You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
  4. It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
  5. Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
  6. Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.
  7. A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
  8. Bits of paper blew aimlessly about, wafted by a little, feverish breeze, which rose in spasms and died away.
  9. The Spaniards since have substituted paper for the leaves of maize, in imitation of them.
  10. "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.