| 单词 | in somebody's own backyard |
| 释义 | in somebody's own backyardin somebody's own backyard informal very near where someone lives, works etc 在自己的后院，在自己的家门口〔指离某人居住、工作等的地方很近〕 Americans would probably react differently to the war if it was in their own back yard. 战争要是发生在自己的家门口，美国人可能就会有不一样的反应。 Examples from the Corpus in somebody’s own backyard• Of course, every fly-blown congressman is keen to install fresh weapons of death in his own backyard.• Make it in your own backyard.• Now those efforts can begin right in your own backyard, when the Gardens' devotees host their annual fall plant sale.• They have a big stockmarket in their own backyard.• It will be easier to find a soul mate elsewhere than in one's own backyard.• And as they were fretting about it being nicked, it turned up in their own backyard. → in somebody’s own backyard at backyard(1) |
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