shirttail

Các nghĩa

1. vạt áo sơ mi (phần dưới, phía sau)

   The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.

   According to Linder, one of the rituals of the hunt entailed cutting off the shirttail of a hunter who shot at and missed a deer.

2. phần cuối, rìa ngoài

   The tail-end or periphery of something.

   broadly

   There was something — did you ever catch hold of the shirttail of a dream and try to pull it back into your consciousness?

   Well, here we are, living in a city right on the shirttail of the city, and you're still not satisfied.

   James Orr joined Henry Joy McCracken and the shirttail of his force in the Slemish Mountains.

3. mối liên hệ mong manh

   A tenuous connection.

4. quan hệ họ hàng xa

   A distant kinship.

   I think we were related in a shirttail sort of way throuogh my father's family in Cordova.

   As I mentioned earlier, my shirttail cousin Rod was a big part of my growing up years.

5. phần nhỏ

   A small portion

   I may get a small shirttail of votes, but I don't expect to be elected.

6. chuyện nhỏ nhặt, không quan trọng

   Something small and unimportant.

   He can't get no further behind. He can sholy take care of this little shirttail of a farm while me and you are whupping them Japanese.

   Why don't you just go ahead and lay out fer me what the hell I've got to do on a little shirttail piece of land like this?

Dạng khác

• shirttails plural