city mouse

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A city person; someone who has city ways. figuratively
  2. A member of support personnel who remains at the base. figuratively,slang
    — […] before arriving, he'd never thought it would be spent as one of the city mice. Most of the McMurdoans never ranged more than walking distance from the largest town on the entire continent.

词形变化

city mice plural

词源

An allusion to The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, one of Aesop's Fables.
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