twist the lion's tail

twist the lion's tail

• • (尤指美国记者)冒犯英国，藐视英国；说当局的坏话
  • (常用于指美国政论家的言论等)触犯英国；试探英国(或英国人)的耐性(尤指出于政治目的有意触犯，作为试探)
  • 冒犯当局，摸老虎屁股，触怒可怕的对手

• desirability
• membranously
• automnesia
• cellodextrins
• nuttings
• autotransductor
• strangeness conservation
• snow static
• cycle length
• methinks
• (at) fever pitch
• riot gear
• make someone free
• convictfishes
• offer/place/put a premium on
• axocoel
• decolonization
• troches
• the primrose way
• dronings
• foster mother / father / parents
• autotomize
• pipas
• press sth home
• sherry-glass
• fires
• acontias
• bumble on about
• cinevérité
• hang / stay loose
• mail mobile
• nashoes
• Nablus
• Marston, John
• befall
• regulating winding
• square and rabbet
• well woman
• interrupted continuous waves
• belt grinding
• disconsideration
• palm sth↔off (on/onto sb)
• smeed
• devitalisation
• television screen
• christological
• dual-purpose fund
• lemon soles
• knock someone down (或 over) with a feather
• orbital velocity
• postdated
• sextiparas
• acoustic
• celiacs
• Gloucestershire
• drifting mine
• Crookes dark space
• dispreading
• denaturized
• vesicates
• against one's grain
• sailor pants
• impounders
• caricous
• play up
• redpolled
• whoremonger
• pine cone
• Hamadan
• biblioclasm
• mug / mugful of sth
• embogging
• gangland
• saltcats
• juv.
• obscurant
• flinch from sth
• areosystyle
• order sb ↔ out
• Opus Dei
• metatherians
• direct rays
• maxixes
• morphography
• degree of crystallinity
• southron
• side-dressing
• let someone down a a peg or two
• Herts
• be rooted in sth
• löss
• good luck
• wingers
• scholarship
• for the first time
• dovetail
• service industry
• Grecize
• skenning
• skyborne