underpants gnome

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词形变化

underpants gnomes 复数 underpants gnomes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Someone who makes incomplete plans with missing steps; someone who plans unsuccessfully.

    贬义 俚语
  2. 2.

    A plan with missing steps; an incomplete plan.

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词源

Named for the Underpants Gnomes, characters in the South Park episode “Gnomes” (1998) who stole underpants from children as part of a plan to make a profit, but their plan lacked the means by which that profit was to be made.

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