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settle a score 的定义

  1. Also, settle or wipe out an old score or scores. Get even, avenge a grievance or an injury. For example, Wendy settled an old score with Bill when she made him wait for half an hour in the rain. These expressions, dating from the mid-1800s to early 1900s, all use score in the sense of “an account” or “bill.” Also see pay off, def. 3.

settle a score 近义词

settle a score

等同于 pay

更多settle a score例句

  1. Yes, we do typically do better than Europe (and Canada, too, which is frequently awful on this score).
  2. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  3. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  4. The higher your score, the more likely it is that you can lip-sync along to the “Checkers” Speech.
  5. By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.
  6. The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
  7. Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
  8. Indeed, a score of bodies lying there had not been seen by Malcolm during his first frenzied examination of the house.
  9. He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
  10. All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.