crack the flags

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Of the sun or sunshine: to beat down very strongly; to be extremely hot. Northern,UK,colloquial
    — Early summer sunshine threatened to crack the flags outside.

词形变化

cracks the flags present,singular,third-person cracking the flags participle,present cracked the flags participle,past cracked the flags past

词源

See flag (“a flagstone”); the idea is that the extreme heat might cause paving-stones to split.
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