"Be a ring-tailed snorter" nghĩa là gì?

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"Be a ring-tailed snorter" = có đuôi chuông khịt mũi -> nghĩa đen (cách dùng cũ) là con lợn (đuôi xoăn, và có tiếng khịt mũi đặc trưng). Nghĩa bóng chỉ người hoặc cái gì sặc sẽ, lòe loẹt, lập dị hoặc nhiệt tình, tràn đầy năng lượng.

Ví dụ
We all think Captain Clark is going to be a ring-tailed snorter for fighting.

Handsome women, too, by the churchful, by the street- i ful ; but never in my life did I ever lay eyes on such a glorious, superb, magnificent, divine (thần thánh), out- and-out ring-tailed snorter, if I may be allowed to use the expression.

Was Bette a bitch? Yes and no. On the one hand she had a warm heart and a trusting nature. On the other she could be a cold careerist. If she didn’t feel threatened, she could be delightful. If she did, she could be a ring-tailed snorter.

The Magnificent Seven (United Artists) suggests that, after many a disappointment with Hollywood and television westerns, U.S. reviewers and distributors are so saddle-sore (đau và tê cứng) and range-blind that they cannot tell a ring-tailed snorter from a bucket-foot mule.


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