pound the pavement

铺路敲打路面敲锣打鼓敲锣打鼓的

pound the pavement 的定义

  1. Walk the streets, especially in search of employment. For example, He was fired last year and he's been pounding the pavement ever since. A similar usage is pound a beat, meaning “to walk a particular route over and over”; it is nearly always applied to a police officer. [Early 1900s]

pound the pavement 近义词

v. 动词 verb

travel far on foot

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