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词汇 frog
释义
frog
1. noun
1
a social outcast US, 1968.
2
a promiscuous girl US, 1995.
3
a French Canadian CANADA, 1966⇨ See: FROGEATER.
4
a condom. Probably as a play on FRENCH LETTER or FRENCHY (a condom) AUSTRALIA, 1952.
5
the French language UK, 1955.
6
one dollar US, 1962
2. verb
to fail (a test or exam) US, 1968
⇨ frog and toad; frog
noun the road. Rhyming slang UK, 1859

Frog
1. adjective
French. Said with unkind intensions US, 1910
2. noun
a person from France. Like all the 'frog' terms for the French, it refers to the eating of frogs UK, 1778
idiomfroghave a frog in your throatspoken to have difficulty in speaking clearly because your throat feels dry or blocked for a moment:Sorry, I've got a frog in my throat. I'll repeat what I just said.Right in the middle of the speech he got this terrible frog in his throat.
Note This idiom comes from an old belief that if you drank water containing the eggs of a frog (=small green animal that lives in or near water), the frogs would grow inside your body. The difficulty in speaking was supposed to be caused by the frog trying to escape.
See:
  • (as) mad as a box of frogs
  • a (real) frog-choker
  • a (real) frog-strangler
  • a big frog in a small pond
  • a frog in (one's) throat
  • a frog in throat
  • a frog in your throat
  • a little frog in a big pond
  • a small frog in a big pond
  • big fish in a small pond
  • big frog in a small pond
  • biggest frog in the puddle
  • boiling frog
  • boiling frog syndrome
  • finer than frog hair
  • frog face
  • frog in (one's) throat
  • frog in a small pond
  • frog in one's throat
  • frog slicing
  • have a frog in (one's) throat
  • have a frog in your throat
  • if a toady frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass
  • If frogs had wheels, they wouldn't bump their butts
  • know no more about than a frog knows about bedsheets
  • like herding frogs
  • little frog in a big pond
  • the biggest frog in the puddle
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