poor-mouth

poor-mouth['puə,mauθ; -məuð]

• vi.
  • [口语]以贫穷作为借口；喊穷叫苦，哭穷：

    She usually poor-mouths when it's her turn to contribute.

    轮到她捐钱时，她老是哭穷。

• vt.
  • 贬低，把…说成很糟糕；讲…的坏话；(谈及本人时)谦卑地说：

    He likes to poor-mouth his candidate's chances so that the candidate will appear to have pulled an astonishingly strong victory.

    他喜欢贬低他的候选人获胜的机会，以便当这个候选人将来获胜时一鸣惊人。

• 变形:

  vi.poor-mouthed.poor-mouthing

• endocrinopathies
• developing
• count among
• gross multiple
• phoniatrics
• eclipsed
• bend one’s efforts for
• sesquioxides
• sesquicentennial
• ergotin(e)
• beechnut
• artifices
• bathyphotometer
• delayable
• desirously
• Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
• zincifying
• if looks could kill…
• cash surrender values
• clivias
• job classification
• tiring room
• porrected
• sea stars
• Gib.
• strip of
• poor-spiritedness
• double-acting pump
• blind area
• copper dish gum
• sandwich courses
• distanced
• riverworthy
• the readies
• ribbon developments
• basion -bregma height
• hematein
• collaboratories
• Kandinski, Vasili
• solvay processes
• black-coated
• Pacific states
• bridal trip
• jete
• untouchability
• green stamps
• colorfulnesses
• rechosen
• harmonicalness
• methadyl acetate
• hening
• (at) full tilt/pelt
• have a lot / enough on your plate
• nonferrous
• mixed farm
• Cut and come again.
• io moths
• single pneumonia
• heizing
• take someone's words for it
• nondestructive breakdown
• flowering plants
• stop-and-go
• teniae
• switch selling
• Kern, Jerome
• concentrated fires
• go away with
• sixteenmos
• fingertip
• straw stem
• touch bottom
• hold out
• interbreedings
• airmail letters
• somnipathies
• I'm sure that
• air-standard refrigeration cycle
• Antimanics
• bicker
• prolificity
• molotovs
• plisky,pliskies
• come into antagonism with
• Quotid.
• Henle's loop
• pericemental
• towing-path
• child-centred
• cellulin granules
• inexpugnability
• barefoot doctor
• anthozoas
• cadmium nitrate
• irresponsibly
• herrying
• shyer
• longicaudal
• steak knife
• diadromous