jaw-jutting

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别名

jawjutting

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Having one’s lower jaw protruding forward

  2. 2.

    determined, dogged, strong-willed, defiant

    比喻

    1954, Lars Lawrence (pseudonym of Philip Stevenson), Morning, Noon, and Night, New York: Putnam, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 147, What he called her “genius” for diplomacy, her tolerance of the precious sensitivities of intellectuals, was as useless in his rough-and-tumble relations with goons and jailers as his jaw-jutting aggressions would be in her mannered and scrupulous artistic circle.