sb / sth could stand sth

sb / sth could stand sth used to say very directly that it would be a good idea for someone to do something or for something to happen某人最好做某事; 某事应该发生:•His smile exposed teeth that could stand a good scrubbing.他那一笑露出了牙齿，那真该好好刷一刷了。sb could stand to do sth•My doctor told me I could stand to lose a few pounds.我的医生说我该减掉几磅体重了。

• revenue tariffs
• water rheostat
• queer someone's pitch
• by now
• anastomosis
• sell off
• kalema
• oddish
• Chediak-Higashi syndrome
• packing charges
• fall into company with
• jadeite
• red as a turkey turkeycock
• liaisoning
• wrasse
• lecturest
• biscay green
• pneumo-
• boatbuildings
• blood sausages
• encrustments
• force constant
• the hard left
• overbite
• someways
• flatss
• apes
• （as） silent （或quiet） as the grave
• omenta
• Lead Poisonings
• full-hearted
• Serratia
• rara aviss
• diethylpropion
• substitution transfusion
• glucuronidases
• fork out (for sth)
• have (got) sb with you
• isolating diode
• shovelnose catfish
• unseemliness
• Leeward Islands
• forepoling
• pretypified
• double sb up/over
• train-spotted
• slip coach
• argumentum ad crumenam
• enrollee
• gutteries
• bootneck
• out sister
• set one thing against another
• fashion from
• local variable
• ceaselessness
• be scared stiff
• penalty
• removedness
• downwards
• lgr.
• uxoriousness
• washtubs
• white list
• be in the right
• oddities
• timesaving
• be lost on
• encases
• brawniest
• darning
• azo dyes
• hydroureter
• trunk feeder
• Gregorian
• the text of sth
• snake-dancing
• gather colour
• ealge vulture
• discarder
• take the chair
• Liza
• gastric fever
• toothpowder
• ceramides
• cold stress
• histomap
• sorter
• jab at
• jizzed
• the worst
• beckoners
• cascading glacier
• trez-tine
• statement of claims
• dribble on
• local options
• object teaching
• parturients
• balminess