sell wolf tickets

短语

发音

US

词形变化

selling wolf tickets sells wolf tickets 三单 sells wolf tickets sold wolf tickets selling wolf tickets 现在分词 sold wolf tickets 过去式 sold wolf tickets 过去分词

别名

sell woof tickets

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make threats or boasts, especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone.

    非裔美国英语

    It's plenty people selling wolf tickets, you know.

词源

From wolf ticket/woof ticket, from woofing (“idly boasting”), from woofing (“(emptily/harmlessly) barking like a dog”). Woof ticket/wolf ticket is attested since the 1960s.

来源：wiktionary