warmer-upper
较暖和的鞋面
Definitions
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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.