词汇 | out like a light |
释义 | Idiom out cold and out like a light Theme: AWARENESS - LACKING unconscious.I fell and hit my head. I was out cold for about a minute.Tom fainted! He's out like a light! Slang out like a light Theme: INTOXICATED - ALCOHOL mod. heavily alcohol intoxicated.Those guys are really out like a light!All four of them drank till they were out like a light. Theme: UNCONSCIOUSNESS mod. unconscious or sleeping soundly.I fell and hit my head. I was out like a light for two minutes, they tell me.I closed my eyes and was out like a light in no time at all. Idiom out like a light in a deep sleep or unconscious.Stu was out like a light, so I threw a blanket on him and turned out the light. out like a light adjective suddenly and deeply unconscious UK, 1944out like a lightUnconscious or in a deep, insensible sleep. Likened to a boxer who has been knocked out. I didn't even hear you come in last night. I was so tired that I was out like a light as soon as my head hit the pillow. On his 21st birthday, Mike's friends gave him so much to drink that he was out like a light by 10 PM. The rowdy customer was out like a light when the bouncer punched him in the head. out like a lightsee under out cold. out like a lightIf someone is out like a light, they are very deeply asleep. Dad gently closed the door again. `She's out like a light,' I heard him whisper to my anxious mother. Note: You can say that someone goes out like a light to mean that they fall quickly and deeply asleep. I was so tired — I went out like a light. out like a light1. mod. unconscious or sleeping soundly. I fell and hit my head. I was out like a light for two minutes, they tell me. 2. mod. heavily alcohol intoxicated. All four of them drank till they were out like a light. out like a lightSuddenly asleep; unconscious. A mid-twentieth-century Americanism, it appeared in Billie Holiday’s autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues: “Bobby, I just can’t make it no further—and I passed out like a light.” |
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