on a loose end

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释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    Archaic form of at a loose end.

    古体

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados I was on a very loose end when one day, outside the Secretariat, as they call it, I ran up against a man called Fraser whom I'd known building a viaduct or something of that sort in the Black Country.