once-over [
'wʌns`ovɚ]
n. 浏览一遍, 大略调查, 草草看一遍, 狠揍
once-over[ noun ]
a swift cursory examination or inspection
<noun.act>
I gave him the once-over
once-over \once-over\ n.
a swift cursory examination or inspection; as, I gave him the
once-over.
Syn: look-over.
[WordNet 1.5]
- He's giving a once-over to a Xerox copier with parts originating in France, Britain and the Netherlands, assembled outside Bombay and bound for Odessa in the Soviet Union.
- The shares closed the week at 87p, down another 15p - partly influenced, no doubt, by reports that Lords Hanson and White have given Lonrho the once-over and backed away shaking their heads ruefully. It is hard not to sympathise with Tiny Rowland.
- Mr. Strieber is a fantasy novelist who claims that aliens nabbed him a few times from his cabin in upstate New York and gave him the once-over.