| 词汇 | footling |
| 释义 | footling adjective old-fashioneduk /ˈfuː.təl.ɪŋ/ us /ˈfuː.t̬əl.ɪŋ/ silly or not important: 愚蠢的；无足轻重的 He could always do something useful instead of wasting my time with footling queries.他总还可以找些有益的事情来做，而不是拿些愚蠢的问题来浪费我的时间。 Synonyms fiddlingmainly UK little pettydisapproving picayuneUS piddlinginformaldisapproving pifflinginformal trivial Of little or less importance be in/under someone's shadowidiom be neither here nor thereidiom big deal biggie derisory meaningless meaninglessly meaninglessness mere merely picture piddling piddly piffling play second fiddleidiom unserious unseriousness venial vestigial vestigially Examples of footlingfootling I think this is a bad tax for three reasons—first, it is unsound; secondly, it is footling; and, thirdly, it is politically vicious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is doubtful whether this footling £13 million will ever be realised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why make this footling little amendment if the object, even if it is accepted, is to change the sum by such a small amount? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a trivial, footling way of meeting a great problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are engaged on these various footling pieces of legislation which take up so much of their time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They did not bring merely one footling quotation but quotation after quotation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all get footling matters to deal with. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Today the security case for moving has become a footling one, but the economic and financial case against moving has become a powerful one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This embarrassment has only been surpassed in duration by major procrastination, punctuated with the introduction of footling measures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a footling, pointless treaty, and it was the outcome of a footling, pointless summit that achieved no agreement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are hampered by petty and footling restrictions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me at the moment that many of these increases are perfectly footling and quite unjustifiable in any real social terms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Footling about with attendance allowances and other allowances is hardly the way to do it unless these allowances are very generous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was a measure of such footling triviality as to be more an insult than a concession to the elderly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is more important than the rather footling argument that has been developed on the questions that we are debating today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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