dress down

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To scold. idiomatic,transitive
    — One night – it was 2.30am – he dressed down a graduate, screaming in her face: “Are you stupid? Are you a fucking stupid cunt?” I had never seen anything like it in a workplace, or on TV, and I haven’t since.
  2. To wear casual or informal clothes. intransitive
  3. To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc.
    — Dan could bait up trawl or lay his hand on any rope in the dark; and at a pinch, when Uncle Salters had a gurry-sore on his palm, could dress down by sense of touch.

词形变化

dresses down present,singular,third-person dressing down participle,present dressed down participle,past dressed down past

词汇关系

相关词
dress-down day dress-down Friday dress up

词源

From analogy with dress up.
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