| 词汇 | like a bump on a log |
| 释义 | Idiom like a bump on a log Theme: MOVEMENT - LACKING unresponsive; immobile.I spoke to him, but he just sat there like a bump on a log.Don't stand there like a bump on a log. Give me a hand! Idiom like a bump on a log American, informal if someone sits or stands somewhere like a bump on a log, they do not react in a useful or helpful way to the activities happening around them.Don't just sit there like a bump on a log, come and help us! like a bump on a logWith little motion or activity; inert. Don't just sit there like a bump on a log—help me bring in the groceries! like a bump on a logFig. completely inert. (Derogatory.) Don't just sit there like a bump on a log; give me a hand! You can never tell what Julia thinks of something; she just stands there like a bump on a log. like a bump on a logUnmoving, inactive, stupidly silent. For example, Harry just sat there like a bump on a log while everyone else joined in the fun. This simile presumably alludes to the immobility of such a protuberance. [Colloquial; mid-1800s] like a bump on a logMotionless; inactive. This simile, comparing a wooden protuberance to a stolidly inactive individual, was used by Mark Twain (1863), “You have been sitting there for thirty days like a bump on a log,” and was repeated by such popular writers as Kate Douglas Wiggin (in The Birds’ Christmas Carol, 1899). |
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