woulda, coulda, shoulda

名词 n. 短语
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instance or moment of regret, hindsight, or futile pondering over a missed opportunity. idiomatic,informal
    — But there a lot of talented people right down there on the street, singing their shoulda-coulda-wouldas, now is that how you wanna end up?
短语
  1. An expression of dismissiveness or disappointment concerning a statement, question, explanation, course of action, or occurrence involving hypothetical possibilities, uncertain facts, or missed opportunities.
    — President Clinton . . . had his clear shot at health-care reform, if we need it, he and his wife, but they blew it. As Mrs. Clinton might say, woulda coulda shoulda.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
Derisively mimics the frequent perfect conditional forms (I would have done this and that) which are used when discussing events that may have occurred in the past.
词源 2
Derisively mimics the frequent perfect conditional forms (I would have done this and that) which are used when discussing events that may have occurred in the past.
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