cook up a storm

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To do a large amount of cooking at once; to prepare a great deal of cooked food. informal
    — When I started to lose weight, she started cooking up a storm.
  2. To cause a storm (weather phenomenon).
    — "Sounds like it's cooking up a storm outside." Jennifer nodded.
  3. To create a stormy situation; agitate or enrage. figuratively
    — Given this information, my imagination was cooking up a storm of other disrupting possibilities. I slept badly and woke up sick to my stomach.
  4. To make a big fuss, generate a lot of unnecessary talk or activity; make a scene. idiomatic
    — Iranians cook up a storm in Harare: Iran's President Ali Khamenei, on the final leg of a six-nation tour in mid- January, became embroiled in what the Zimbabwe Herald termed an "unprecedented diplomatic incident" when he refused to attend a banquet held in his honor by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.
  5. To make a splash; to create a spectacle.
    — Kaffe is really cooking up a storm here, with polychromatic fireworks in shimmering primaries exploding and rioting all over the canvas.

词形变化

cooks up a storm present,singular,third-person cooking up a storm participle,present cooked up a storm participle,past cooked up a storm past
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