词汇 | lean-and-hungry |
释义 | lean and hungryidiom showing a very strong and determined wish to get something: 野心勃勃,志在必得 He's got that lean and hungry look.他一副志在必得的样子。 Strong-willed adamancy adamant adamantine adamantly aggressive grittily gutsily gutsy gutty hard-boiled pertinaciously pigheaded pigheadedly purposeful purposefully ultra-serious unbending unbroken undaunted unmovable You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Wanting things Examples of lean and hungrylean and hungry Twelve of them stood out, leanandhungry-looking men, and this personage walked across and spoke to them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He looks remarkably healthy and fit, if somewhat leanandhungry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he also agree that the so-called leanandhungry super-tier authority suggested by some people would soon become a fat and useless body? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By all means have a powerful, leanandhungry bunch of people, who can act as health auditors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am absolutely delighted that they are to receive new encouragement and new help because although they are healthy children they are still pretty leanandhungry children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They call that leanandhungry. 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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