sell down the river 的定义
- Betray, as in They kept the merger a secret until the last minute, so the employees who were laid off felt they'd been sold down the river. This expression, dating from the mid-1800s, alludes to slaves being sold down the Mississippi River to work as laborers on cotton plantations. Its figurative use dates from the late 1800s.
sell down the river 近义词
等同于 backstab
sell down the river 的近义词 6 个
等同于 sell/sell out
sell down the river 的近义词 20 个
- beguile
- break faith
- bunk
- cross
- deceive
- deliver up
- delude
- disappoint
- double-cross
- fail
- four-flush
- give away
- give up
- mislead
- play false
- rat on
- stab in the back
- surrender
- take in
- violate
sell down the river 的反义词 2 个
等同于 squeal
等同于 stab in the back
等同于 betray
等同于 blow the whistle
等同于 double-cross
更多sell down the river例句
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- He observes the bodies floating away on the river, pulling on his cigarette with a sneer.
- Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
- That article noted that the F-35 does not currently have the ability to down-link live video to ground troops,.
- A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.
- The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
- I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
- His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
- So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
- Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?