1. keep the wolf from the door : 勉强度日;
2. cry wolf : 发假警报;
及物动词
名词
1. 狼
A wolf is a wild animal that looks like a large dog.
2. 狼吞虎咽地吃
If someone wolfs their food, they eat it all very quickly and greedily.
3. 喊“狼来了”;发假警报
If someone cries wolf, they say that there is a problem when there is not, with the result that people do not believe them when there really is a problem.
4. 勉强度日;糊口
If you keep the wolf from the door, you succeed in providing food and other necessary things for yourself or your family.
相关词组:wolf down
1. any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
2. a cruelly rapacious person
Synonym: beastsavagebrutewildcat
3. a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
Synonym: woman chaserskirt chasermasher