词汇 | Fraughting |
释义 | (redirected from Fraughting)fraught with dangerVery unsafe or risky. A trip to that part of town at night would be fraught with danger—why risk it? fraught with dangerCliché [of something] full of something dangerous or unpleasant. The spy's trip to Russia was fraught with danger. My escape from the kidnapper was fraught with danger. fraught with danger/perilVery risky indeed. Fraught with means “full of ” and is rarely used today except in the sense of something undesirable. The expression, a cliché since the nineteenth century, first appeared in print in 1576 as “fraught with difficulties”; the precise cliché was first cited by the OED as appearing in 1864 in H. Ainsworth’s Tower of London: “This measure . . . is fraught with danger.” |
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