chestnut

chestnut['tʃesnʌt]

• n.
  • 栗子[山毛榉科栗属(Castanea)树的可食用坚果]
  • 【植物】栗树
  • 栗木
  • 类似栗子的各种果实
  • 栗色，红棕色
  • 栗色马，红棕马
  • 马前腿内侧的角质胼胝
  • [美国口语]陈腐的笑话(或故事)；陈词滥调，老生常谈；听厌的乐曲
• adj.
  • 栗色的，红棕色的
• 短语:
  • drop something like a hot chestnut 急忙摆脱某物
  • pull someone's (或 the) chestnuts out of the fire 为某人火中取栗，替某人冒险[亦作 pull the chestnuts out of the fire for someone]
  • put the chestnuts in the fire 惹出麻烦来

• in the interest(s) of justice / safety / efficiency etc
• shr.
• blue stars
• carrocci
• budgeter
• Hydroxynaphthalenes
• guarea
• Zhou
• hatchet face
• white houses
• Neill's parabola
• materialisation
• persistences
• Dunǎrea
• agnominal
• faults
• article（或object） of virtu
• as clear as a whistle
• irido-
• mutant
• resinanchored bolt
• apochromatism
• whirlabouts
• opus magnum
• catfalls
• intersexuality
• xenotropism
• Coptic
• discoid
• floration
• exuviation theory
• be driven / pushed from pillar to post
• harmlessness
• runner-ups
• neuropteroid
• spittoons
• be laughed out of court
• pseudoperiodic motion
• efficiency engineers
• legislative council
• scalar potential
• chondromatous
• repositorium
• gaby
• photogelatin process
• big hitter
• EEC
• abundant year
• lean to/towards
• back cut
• ululating
• moisture equivalent
• palmtops
• boss trick
• slum landlord
• Hautes-Alpes
• electric clock
• turn to
• spermary
• upward valuation
• staphylectomy
• backspeir
• chirrups
• be on about
• Esocidae
• room services
• shave-hook
• fiercest
• dysphasics
• heap coals of fire on someone's head
• way
• occultly
• portulacaceous
• oophoropathy
• complainable
• Pine Tree State
• micro-
• enjoiners
• scheldts
• end your life / end it all
• by comparison
• elliptical ring structure
• call into action
• raggiatura
• insincerities
• credits
• neighborite
• guarding
• patent agent
• Mesolithic
• special-purpose computer
• tuning range
• jawless vertebrates
• bar mitzvah,bar mizvahed
• antelope
• Stromateoids
• dressy
• military-industrial complex
• lotos-eater
• procurator general