英语词汇“Bunbury”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

Bunbury

释义

Bunbury|ˈbʌnbərɪ|
The name of an imaginary person used as a fictitious excuse for visiting a place or avoiding obligations (see quot. 1899). Hence used allusively in various formations (see quots.).
1899Wilde Importance of being Earnest i. 14, I have Bunburyed all over Shropshire on two separate occasions.Ibid. 16, I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.Ibid. 17 Now that I know you to be a confirmed Bunburyist I naturally want to talk to you about Bunburying.1959Listener 12 Feb. 300/3 He may even be able to kill the faint hope in many hearts that the former has merely gone Bunburying.1960Times 27 Apr. 10/1 The perils of Bunburying—to use the classical term for the creation of a spurious alibi—increase in proportion to the complexity of the story told.1965P. Moyes Johnny under Ground ix. 117 I've evolved this rather attractive alter ego—Mr. Reginald Derbyshire-Bentinck. Quite Bunburyish, in his own little way.1969Listener 5 June 794/3 For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die... At least the words are an apt motto for a Bunburyist.

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