| 释义 |
flat-out, n. U.S.
[f. verbal phr. to flat out (see flat v.2 4 b).]
A failure, a fiasco.
a1870in D.A.E., To flat out..is heard also as a noun. ‘It was a complete flat-out.’ ‘He made a flat-out.’ —N[ew] E[ngland]. 1886Century Mag. Mar. 727/1, I didn't know it was goin' to be s'ch a perfect flat-out. |
