prick up ears 的 3 个定义
- a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- a sharp point; prickle.
- the act of pricking: the prick of a needle.
- (10)
- to pierce with a sharp point; puncture.
- to affect with sharp pain, as from piercing.
- to cause sharp mental pain to; sting, as with remorse, anger, etc.: His conscience pricked him.
- (10)
- to perform the action of piercing or puncturing something.
- to have a sensation of being pricked.
- to spur or urge a horse on; ride rapidly.
- to rise erect or point upward, as the ears of an animal.
prick up ears 近义词
penis (vulgar)
highly unpleasant man
更多prick up ears例句
- Using a fork, prick each potato in several places, then place them on the baking sheet and bake for about 30 minutes.
- They were meant to prick, humiliate and demoralize the soldiers so they would defect from the war.
- Using the sharp point of the knife, prick the duck skin all over except for the drumsticks.
- Note that you should never prick or slice open quality sausages before cooking them.
- The company 1Drop Diagnostics, which is developing credit card–sized chips to detect chemical markers of different diseases in blood samples from a finger prick, is working on portable blood tests for astronauts.
- For those of you who believe in following the money, prick up your ears.
- Prick the bladder with a needle every so often,” she advises sagely, “to keep it from exploding.
- The columnist was a royal prick, but he had this soft spot for Damon Runyon, who was dying at the time.
- The prick of conscience she has alerts us to the fact that she is different from Francis—or just at a different stage of her life.
- A 1992 episode of the sitcom imagined what it would be like if a bubble boy was actually kind of prick.
- Then they continue to prick the body, and, as they say, they draw off or suck out the humors until the body is left dry.
- She ain't all greyhound; but the best man as ever I knew always said there never was a prick-eared one a bad 'un.
- This time I had my ankus with me, so that in case he should run away again I could prick his neck and make him behave.
- In Stanley's experience one man died within a minute, from a mere pin prick in the breast.
- Then the Loon tried to prick the Tin Woodman's leg, but the tin only blunted the point of the thorn.