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warmer-upper

/wawr-mer-uhp-er/US // ˈwɔr mərˈʌp ər //

较暖和的鞋面

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : something that provides one with invigorating warmth: Hot soup is a good warmer-upper after skiing.
    • : something that serves to warm up an audience or group of participants before a main event: Radio stations played martial music as a warmer-upper before the prime minister's speech.

Examples

  • Kanye refuses to stomach any rejection, no matter how upper crust.

  • If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings.

  • White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.

  • Targeting her upper back, Couple sat cross-legged on a table while she whipped her slave.

  • As the Cold War entered its final years, the film enjoyed a warmer reception in Russia.

  • “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

  • On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.

  • It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.

  • The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.

  • The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.