tired and emotional

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Drunk. UK,euphemistic,humorous,idiomatic
    — In 2008, after what you imagine was a tired and emotional dinner, the novelist Michel Houellebecq and the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy determined to start writing to each other about the things that kept them awake at nights.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tired, emotional.
    — Andy Murray was tired and emotional – in the old fashioned sense – after becoming the first player in the history of tennis at the Olympics to win back-to-back gold medals in Rio on Sunday night.

词形变化

more tired and emotional comparative most tired and emotional superlative

词源

First used by the British satirical magazine Private Eye in 1967, in a spoof diplomatic memo to describe the state of cabinet minister George Brown. It is now used as a stock phrase and euphemism to avoid litigation for libel, and the phrase has spread well beyond the magazine.
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