swim the Thames

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To convert to Anglicanism. intransitive
    — […] Philip Jenkins, himself an ex-Catholic who swam the Thames, speculates that the rates of decline in his adopted Church are so steep that the last American Episcopalian may have been born.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swim, the, Thames.

词形变化

swims the Thames present,singular,third-person swimming the Thames participle,present swam the Thames past swum the Thames participle,past cross the Thames alternative

词源

Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of London’s river Thames for Rome’s river Tiber.
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