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"Pencil-necked" nghĩa là gì?
22 Apr, 2022
"Pencil-necked" = cổ bút chì -> nghĩa là yếu đuối, yếu ớt, không ấn tượng; nghĩa khác là có khuynh hướng theo đuổi học thuật, trí tuệ.
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There’s also the usual red tape from the council over where these refugees (người tị nạn) should be housed. The usual pencil-necked jobsworths with their clipboards.
Nobody would now argue that the PM having a glass of prosecco with some boring, pencil-necked nerd (mọt sách) from the civil service is the most pressing issue facing our country.
You saw this one coming, right? After a few viewings of 8 Seconds, it’s inevitable (không tránh khỏi) that kids start talking like Tuff Hedeman. I walked into the living room the other day just in time to hear Milo start in on an imaginary rival. “You’re nothin’ but a scrawny, pencil-necked, son-of-a-”
Incredibly, as the leaves change and fall, in that short time span, a whitetail buck's neck circumference (chu vi) will more than double in size. It seems one moment bucks are pencil-necked geeks and in the next, All-Pro linebackers.
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