a yard of pump water

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something which is very straight and very thin.

    英国 美国 方言

    as/so thin as a yard of pump water; as skinny as a yard of pump-water; as straight as a yard of pump-water; like a yard of pump water

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词源

Perhaps because a stream of water falling approximately three feet from a water pump into a bucket is both straight and thin; but compare also yard of ale, where the yard is a tall, slender, hollow receptacle.

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