public enemy number one
头号公敌,一号公敌,第一号公敌,第一公敌
Definitions
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- : a criminal at the top of the FBI's list of the ten most wanted criminals.
- : a major menace to public safety, health, etc.: Cancer is Public Enemy Number One.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
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.
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.
If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.