walk turkey
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To stagger or move with an ungainly gait.
— Out on the bar the north wind commenced to make the Yaquina walk turkey, standing her up on either end alternately and rolling her both ways at once.
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To walk with the chest pushed out in front (often due to being pushed or forced)
— Why, swimming “dog fashion” can bear no comparison with it, while the almost frantic efforts of the young man to keep his toes on term firma, seemed to us a most vivid illustration of the days when the “big boys” used to make us “walk turkey".
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To obey obsequiously; to toe the line.
— There are a favored few who are allowed to do as they please ; but the rest of us must walk turkey, or spend our Saturday afternoons in doing extra duty.
词源
From the way a domestic turkey moves, leading with the breast and bobbing back and forth.
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