词汇 | swivel-eyed |
释义 | swivel-eyed adjective informalUKuk /ˈswɪv.əlˌaɪd/ us /ˈswɪv.əlˌaɪd/ an insulting way to describe someone as crazy or as having very extreme ideas: 疯狂的,极端的(极具侮辱性的说法) The press has characterized him as a swivel-eyed fanatic.媒体把他描述成一个极端狂热分子。 He is trying to ward off the opposition's charges that he is a swivel-eyed extremist. Puritanism produces swivel-eyed zealots who pursue their manias with little sense of proportion. To him they are "swivel-eyed Europhobes, hangers and floggers." The opposing camp referred to him as "a swivel-eyed Stalinist". He plays a swivel-eyed loon called Basil Fawlty who runs a small hotel. Unsuitable and unacceptable amiss be in bad, poor, the worst possible, etc. tasteidiom beneath your dignityidiom beyond beyond the paleidiom incorrect incorrectly indecent ineligibility ineligible over-extravagant raffish raffishly raffishness room unsuitable unsuitably unsuited unsupportable unwarrantable |
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