shirttail
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
— According to Linder, one of the rituals of the hunt entailed cutting off the shirttail of a hunter who shot at and missed a deer.
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The tail-end or periphery of something.
— There was something — did you ever catch hold of the shirttail of a dream and try to pull it back into your consciousness?
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A tenuous connection.
— Although consumers' cooperatives have not yet been benefitted, the more they become tied on to the shirttail of the agricultural bloc, the more political power they are going to have.
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A distant kinship.
— She belongs to the true sisterhood of the majestic five daughters born to America's inland Neptune, but she always has been regarded as a poor relation, a sort of shirttail cousin, by her big sisters.
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A small portion
— “What good's a one-horse farm, I ask you, a few acres of tobacco and a shirttail of corn and cotton—just enough to see a man through the winter and maybe buy seed to plant and get another run till the crops are in?
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Something small and unimportant.
— He can't get no further behind. He can sholy take care of this little shirttail of a farm while me and you are whupping them Japanese.
词形变化
词汇关系
词源
From shirt + tail.
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