spin a yarn 的定义
- Tell a story, especially a long drawn-out or totally fanciful one, as in This author really knows how to spin a yarn, or Whenever he's late he spins some yarn about a crisis. Originally a nautical term dating from about 1800, this expression probably owes its life to the fact that it embodies a double meaning, yarn signifying both “spun fiber” and “a tale.”
spin a yarn 近义词
等同于 relate
spin a yarn 的近义词 36 个
- describe
- detail
- disclose
- present
- reveal
- chronicle
- depict
- divulge
- express
- impart
- itemize
- narrate
- particularize
- picture
- recite
- recount
- rehearse
- report
- retell
- sling
- spill
- state
- tell
- track
- verbalize
- break a story
- clue one in
- get off one's chest
- give the word
- lay it on the line
- let one's hair down
- run down
- run through
- set forth
- shoot the breeze
- spill the beans
spin a yarn 的反义词 7 个
更多spin a yarn例句
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.
- Although he brings a Western spin to things, he seems equally inspired by the local sense of style.
- Spin control began, Florida-style: the opinion only covers some counties, some people, some times.
- David Greenberg at Rutgers University has a book coming out next year on political spin.
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
- All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
- I didn't take much stock in the yarn at the time, but I'm beginning to think he had it straight.
- Urinary sediments may be studied under three heads: A. Unorganized sediments.