avoid like the plague

短语

发音

US /əˈvɔɪd laɪk ðə ˈpleɪɡ/
AU
UK /əˈvɔɪd laɪk ðə ˈpleɪɡ/

词形变化

avoided like the plague avoiding like the plague avoids like the plague 三单 avoids like the plague avoiding like the plague 现在分词 avoided like the plague 过去式 avoided like the plague 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To evade or shun, if at all possible.

    Cliché should be avoided like the plague.

    I’m one of those people who avoids confrontations like the plague.

词源

From the deadliness of the plague and the need to avoid it. Commonly attributed to similar phrases in Latin used by the priest and theologian Saint Jerome (c. 347–420) in his letters, for example: : His igitur quasi quibusdam pestibus exterminatis veniamus ad eos,[…] Avoiding these [the Remnuoth, a class of monks in Egypt] then as though they were the plague, […] : [N]egotiatorem clericum et ex inope divitem et ex ignobili gloriosum quasi quandem pestem fuge Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business, one who has risen from poverty to wealth, from obscurity to a high position

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