off keel

介词短语

英文释义

介词短语
  1. Out of balance, tilting to one side. (of a watercraft, etc.)
    — 1896, William Sharp, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Col, Chapter 4, p. 78, The tide was full and the dingey was off keel. The punt nosed the pebbly slope like a terrier, but her stern swung clear.
  2. Out of control, not proceeding or running smoothly. figuratively
    — The lower half of a duplex apartment on a shabby Montreal street, dark as limbo, jerry-built fifty years ago and going off keel ever since.

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反义词
on keel

词源

From off + keel.
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