holus-bolus

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. All together; entirely; without modification. not-comparable
    — to accept a story holus-bolus.

词源

Unknown. Possibly of Ancient Greek origin, from ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) and βόλος (bólos, “a throw with a casting net”), or βῶλος (bôlos, “lump”). May have been Latinized (i.e., -us ending as in masculine singular in Latin, as opposed to -os ending for masculine singular in Greek).
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