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单词
boot-faced
释义
Definition of
boot-faced
in English:
boot-faced
adjective
British
informal
Having a grim or scowling expression.
〈英,非正式〉严厉的,面无笑容的;面带怒容的
a boot-faced police sergeant
一位严厉的警长。
Example sentences
Examples
She soon lapses back into her impersonation of a boot-faced police sergeant.
She gets the better of her boot-faced teacher with an environmental project involving her family and a tree-saving campaign.
Her West End debut has been another antidote to the occasionally boot-faced Havers.
You never know, it may just be a nervous laugh, brought on by facing up to five boot-faced, judgemental, snidey so-and-sos like you lot.
The boot-faced former MP has complained.
Synonyms
stern
, forbidding, uninviting, unapproachable, aloof, distant
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put one's shoulder to the wheel
put one's shoulder to the wheel
put one's trust in
put one's two cents in
put on evening dress
put on file
put on flesh
put on flesh
putonghua
put on ice
put on jam
put on more clothes
put on notice
put on one's glad rags
put on one's guard
put on one's guard about
put on one's head
put on one side
put on one's thinking cap
put on one's thinking cap
put on one's thinking cap about
put on (or lose) weight
put on (or lose) weight
put on paper
put on public view
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