| 词汇 | do something once too often |
| 释义 | do something once too oftendo something once too often HARM/BE BAD FORto repeat a bad, stupid, or dangerous action with the result that you get punished or cause trouble for yourself 屡次做坏事[傻事，危险之事]而遭殃 He tried that trick once too often and in the end they caught him. 他一次次故伎重施，最后他们终于把他抓住了。 Examples from the Corpus do something once too often• The kids rang Brant's doorbell once too often, and he reported them to the police.• But not Luke Denner - he's humiliated me once too often!• He'd said it once too often, and this time she'd taken him at his word.• He got into trouble once too often and wound up in continuation school.• I can only assume she tried once too often to enter the nest, as the female died during the night.• It had failed him in a crisis and that was once too often.• Maybe she just turned him down once too often.• One of these people had looked in my direction once too often, passed by once again just a little too slowly.• Until, that is, it lived up to its original name once too often! → do something once too often at once1(13) |
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