英语词汇“dry、footed”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

dry-footed

释义

ˈdry-ˌfooted, a.
Having dry feet; with the feet not wetted; = prec. i.
a1225Ancr. R. 220 Þer heo eoden drui-uoted.1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xxxi. (1495) 367 [They] passyd Iordan drye foted.1577–87Harrison England i. x. 30 Such as a man may go into drie-footed at the full Sea.1833Marryat P. Simple xii, Whether he was out of his depth or not, I can't tell, although I suspect that he was not dry-footed.
b. fig. ? Passing lightly and dexterously over a difficulty (like one who steps lightly over a stream without wetting his feet).
[1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 359 Maister Heskins skippeth ouer with a drye foote, that Ambrose saith..he shall not die.]1830Coleridge Table-t. 20 May, The explanation of Erasmus, and Clarke, and some others, is very dry-footed.

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