| 单词 | take a powder |
| 例句 | At eight o’clock in the evening he will eat some miserable rubbish they get in exchange for their food tickets, then he will take a powder for his headache and work on. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Burned: I assume that at this point you’re relieved he took a powder. Perspective | Ask Amy: My boyfriend won’t listen to my concerns about his dog 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts wants to run for president in 2020, but her hometown newspaper thinks maybe she just oughta take a powder. ‘Fauxcahontas’ Elizabeth Warren’s stock just went down — again 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “He took a powder in the bathroom and left, and allowed Maine to decide West Virginia’s vote,” Mr. Morrisey said of his Democratic opponent. Joe Manchin-Patrick Morrisey West Virginia Senate debate hits opioids, Trump 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Instead, traditional Republican constituencies like high-end suburbanites and college grads appear to be abandoning the party of their parents, or at least taking a powder. After Alabama, Republicans need to choose reason over rage 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z I seriously thought of taking a powder. Those challenges to journalism are so well identified, so mournfully lamented, and so passionately debated that I wonder if the subject isn’t exhausted. Bill Moyers: Journalism must survive the pressure cooker of plutocracy 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Former secretary of state Dean Acheson wrote, “The problems that bedeviled American foreign policy were not like headaches,” where you “take a powder and they are gone.” Patience should be a New Year’s resolution 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z It wants to attack—even bringing an unprecedented lawsuit against the President–presidential abuses of power, but when presented with an opportunity to act, it takes a powder. Congress and War On ISIS: "Just Bomb the Place and Tell Us About It Later" 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z And on that note, we have to take a powder. City Room: N.Y. Police Officers' 1946 Jargon Explained 2011-11-08T18:10:45Z I had been very ill all day, and was made to take a powder in marmalade—Ah-h—bah!—and went to sleep about twelve with the window wide open because of the heat. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z "Beautiful," says he, pausing long enough to take a powder which the surgeon had left with him. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z "The government took a powder in Stockholm," one said. Gas settlement disputed in Ukraine 2010-12-11T00:44:00Z I can’t sleep unless I take a powder and I can’t have any enthusiasm in the morning unless I have oodles of black coffee. The Gorgeous Girl Then she took a powder arrangement and powdered my face, put on a pair of long gauntlets which she usually wore, and told me to look in the glass. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 "Since we can be of no further use to each other—" "Don't take a powder, chum," he urged plaintively. Greener Than You Think From a small receptacle he took a powder, and dropped it into the bowl, andp. The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island I would then put twice as much of the bromide of potash, fifty grains, and take a powder every two hours until better. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Three or four times a day he took a powder made of herbs to which he naturally attributed his power of prolonging life without food. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Last Monday she took a powder, and now she sleeps all night like the dead. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Then he came down from the mast-head and opening his sea-chest, pulled out a bag of blue cotton, from which he took a powder like ashes. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 |
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