put to shame 的定义
- Outdo, eclipse, as in Jane's immaculate kitchen puts mine to shame. This idiom modifies the literal sense of put to shame, that is, “disgrace someone,” to the much milder “cause to feel inferior.” [Mid-1800s]
put to shame 近义词
outdo
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- To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
- Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
- Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
- When I put their allegations to Epstein, he denied them and went into overdrive.
- We did ThunderAnt stuff for ourselves and just put it online, and then it blossomed into something else.
- He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
- This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
- Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.
- Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.