Definition of horn in English:

horn

noun hɔːnhɔrn

1A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.
（牛、羊、长颈鹿等的）角
Example sentencesExamples
- Other participants perform libation using Scotch or other similar liquor by pouring from a ram's horn.
- During their first cold winter, Lewis shipped a collection of skins, horns, skeletons, and prairie plants back down the Missouri.
- What artist would represent cattle without horns?
- At the festival itself, some of the men wear small goat horns attached to their heads, giving them a rather satyr like appearance.
- Male bighorn sheep with the largest horns, for instance, have the highest social rank and are more likely to mate.
- Before that, ales, which were typically dark and cloudy with yeast, were served in everything from mugs and tankards to goat horns and the chalices of kings.
- Pan is most often portrayed with the torso of a man, the hooved legs and twisty horns of a wild goat, and the capricious face of a human.
- The horns of cows and sheep grow over a bony core that resembles the horn in shape, so anything with a slightly twisted cone of rough-surfaced bone is unlikely to be human.
- Most noticeable were two giant goat horns protruding from its head.
- Some specimens even sport multiple pairs of horns, between four and six inches long.
- In contrast, both sexes of many other hoofed mammals have permanent, hollow horns.
- At the town's market, I had discovered the magnificent horns of a blue sheep while examining wildlife body parts being offered for sale.
- The only difference between them was the ram's horns on one's head and the goat horns on the other.
- It was imperative that all ritual was accompanied by the correct type of bull according to its colour, markings and horn shape to ensure the efficacy of the ritual.
- At the end of these two cows' horns are attached, and to the horns two large goat skin bellows, one each side of the furnace.
- On his belt he carries several knives, and a ram's horn for blowing.
- Ankole cattle, from the great lakes region of East Africa, are also bred for horn shape and size.
- It is like looking at a pair of cattle horns, is it not?
- Texas is a place where everything is bigger, the adage goes, and that's as true of our lakes as of the horns on our cattle and the tires on our pickups.
- Here the cows were small with slender horns and the sheep quite goat-like.
1. 1.1 A woolly keratinized outgrowth, occurring singly or one behind another, on the snout of a rhinoceros.
  （犀牛长鼻子上的）触角
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Rhino's horn is not a true horn, but consists of compressed hair, and the animal prefers to defend itself with its canine teeth with which it can make horrible gashes.
  The African rhino species have two horns, one behind the other, and have smooth, gray skin.
  He flew up to where Element was situated, his sword floating up in front of him like a rhino's horn.
  We had just completed a night safari, coming nose to horn with a rhino who proceeded to chase the jeep.
  The soldiers allegedly used the stolen money to buy items as diverse as cameras and rhinoceros horns, the officials said.
  Is it the rhinoceros with its aphrodisiac horn and herbivorous browsing?
  Now what about the issue of rhinoceros and the horns?
  Medieval explorers, coming across the rhinoceros, described it as a fierce animal like a big horse with a single horn on its nose.
  Without their commanding horn the rhinoceros present a forlorn image.
  The Reserve has a similar program with rhinoceros where a microchip is implanted in the animal's horn both for identification purposes and to deter poaching.
  He fell to the ground, the large rhino horn protruding from his chest while black, sticky blood pooled around him.
  Other times and places he wore elk antlers instead, or the fibrous horns of a rhino, dancing about the walls of torch-lit caverns with feather and paw, fin and claw.
2. 1.2 A deer's antler.
  鹿角
  Example sentencesExamples
  Solid horns, called antlers, distinguish most species in the deer family from the other hoofed mammals.
  The deer brought him to where Rishyashringa was, and Vibondaka saw this shining young baby with deer horns.
  Thinking it was some deer caught in an aged trap or caught by its horns, she dropped her pail, running immediately to the place.
  He ate the deer and displayed its horns on the tractor as a trophy.
  She crawled over and lay next to him, looking over the log to see a family of deer, a doe and three babies, their horns barely coming up.
  Most fights involve hooking uppercuts or a cautious locking of horns or shoving head to head, ending when one animal signals submission and the winner lets him go.
  There were the skulls of all manner of strange mountain animals, stags' horns, stuffed owls…
  Most of the venison comes from fallow deer, the kind that drop their horns in April and May in the park at Richmond; these are the usual inhabitants of deer parks.
  It always ends with death whether it is the death of our prey and our subsequent feast or the tragic death of a pack member, caught by the horns of an elk or trampled by deer.
  This is also in accord with beliefs concerning a white ibex or deer in the Caucasus Mountains, although these concern the animal's meat or milk rather than its horn.
  I ate my first bloody rare steak and you shot the coyote that still hangs in the family room next to one of your other first trophies, the thick horns of a mule deer.
  Suddenly, she saw the big buck, its crescent horns piercing the blue sky.
  Though later the victory of Enigorio, using deer horns, suggests some special status or power of the deer, Cusick never lingers on such spots.
  Behind him was a deer with great horns that twisted and turned in every direction.
  And then we rounded a corner and there was a male ibex nibbling on a tuft of grass, throwing his horns back every now and then as if troubled by a gigantic and very heavy quiff.
  You could have been given spider webs and violet fabric to wrap your chancre or sip tea made from deer horns but you were most likely to be dosed up with toxic heavy metals.
  Deer horns are mounted on top of a kostoweh worn by a leader.
3. 1.3 A projection resembling a horn on the head of another animal, e.g. a snail's tentacle or the tuft of a horned owl.
  （其他动物头上的）角状物（例如蜗牛的触角、角鸮的冠毛）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The dorsal gray horn receives incoming or afferent fibers.
  And I don't want to cut off the horns of a black snail.
  Many of his contemporaries derided him as ‘a hesitating cow’ or ‘a bull with snail's horns.’
  Any animal fairly bristling with long, pointed horns and spikes simply looks ready to fend off any and all would-be predators.
  She sighed as she looked down at the water and saw not only her reflection but a figure with brown hair and horns looking into the pond as well.
  The man has stopped to look at a slug, which has horns and a slick skin, but they only know he has stopped.
  In some boxfishes, such as the aptly named cowfishes, the keels extend forward, beyond the body, to form sharp horns.
  Many living animals have horns or hornlike organs; the list includes antelope, deer, chameleons, birds, and even ants.
  The figure was bald, and sported several horns where hair should have grown.
  This contrasts with the horns of artiodactyls, which have bone cores, are paired, and are located on the frontals.
  The creature within is like a huge snail with horns tipped by bright golden eyes.
  The lad noticed the stranger's ink-black hair and the horns that grew upon his head.
  Synonyms
  antenna, tentacle
4. 1.4hornsarchaic A pair of horns as an emblem of a cuckold.
  〈古〉绿帽子（妻子有外遇者的标志）
5. 1.5West Indian mass noun Marital infidelity.
  〈西印度〉（夫或妻）婚姻不忠
  she took endless horn and pressure, but now she wants a divorce
  她忍受了无尽的不忠和压力，现在再也受不了了，因此要求离婚。
2mass noun The substance of which horns are composed.
角质物
powdered rhino horn
犀牛角粉。
Example sentencesExamples
- Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part.
- It must be dissolved slowly in water, over several days and then filtered to remove traces of Acacia tree bark, elephant hide and rhino horn.
- I know this because I recently went into Gap to try on a nice grey cardigan with dark-green trim and horn buttons, mindful that this could be my key purchase for autumn 2004.
- In Yemen, for example, rhino horn is carved into handles used in daggers called jambiyas.
- To date we've examined over 1,000 rhino horn pills; we've never found a real one.
- It seems the Chinese believe that this rhino's horn cures everything from lumbago to laryngitis, and they will pay anything to get it.
- The same is true for the cost of rhino horn, but the whole story is even a bit more complicated.
- One trader along the border of what are today South Africa and Botswana employed 400 African hunters in the pursuit of rhino horn.
- Rhino horn is said to make men sexually unstoppable, and asparagus, bananas, eels, oysters, figs and ginseng are all reputed to get you going.
- But the proteins on our outside - in skin, hair, and nail, as well as animal horn and hoof - are of a different kind.
- We do have things like rhino horn occasionally, and tiger fur, not on a huge scale, but it still happens.
- This netsuke of a seated deer howling at the moon stands 9.7 cm in height, and was carved in the Edo period from ivory with dark horn inlaid for eyes.
- The reference to horn and ivory show that composite bows were known, and the inclusion of yew shows they knew of this best of bow timbers.
- Since Viagra gets it up more reliably than powdered horn, Asia has made a quick switch, and poachers have lost market share.
- Based on these measurements, the horn capsule of the claw is a composite of horn produced over the past 12 to 15 months.
- The bow itself could be simply of wood or of a composite of horn or whalebone placed between two thin pieces of yew and covered in tendon, while steel bows appear from the 14th century.
- Throw a tax cut their way, the argument goes, and like lovers haplessly lost to the aphrodisiacal effects of ground rhino horn, they'll be putty in your hands.
- Obviously rhino horn has nothing to do with genitalia.
- Tiger bone is used to treat arthritis and muscular atrophy, and rhino horn to treat fevers, convulsions, and delirium.
- Hand-crafted objects are made in wood, leather, horn, metal, stone, mineral, clay, cloth, and feathers.
1. 2.1count noun A receptacle made of horn, such as a drinking container or powder flask.
  角质容器（或器具）（如喝酒容器、火药筒）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Horns are used as butter dishes and large horns as cups for drinking mead.
  My current practice goes far better when I've had a couple of bottles / horns of beer or cider.
  He has raised a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he promised through holy prophets long ago.
  Then he grabbed his ration pack, gunpowder horn, and bullet bag.
  I watched his hands, tipping measured amounts of powder from a pewter horn, tapping in a ball and wad with a short ramrod.
  Drink was taken in horns, similarly decorated and sometimes with metal tips and rims.
  The soldier blinked repeatedly and then raised his horn to his lips.
3A horn-shaped projection or object.
角状突起物
Example sentencesExamples
- Half of the left uterine horn was fixed in Bouin's fixative, and processed routinely for immunohistochemistry.
- Michael's headlong flight meant he and Kieran were going to clip off the vanguard of the right horn of the crescent.
- Performers projected into a horn, and the vibrations were directly converted into the wiggles of a groove on the master disc.
- The tail occupies a position in the roof of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle.
- America's riches are pulling people all along the continent's Hispanic horn on a great migration to the place they call El Norte.
- The headdress with its straight, sharp horns holds out a model of a very different sort of response - that of active fight and resistance.
- The posterior horns are present and normal and contain normal choroid plexus.
- There's a cartoon: a man wrapped in a tuba, its horn gaping over his head.
- At the front are two projecting horns flanking a forecourt, at the back of which is the entrance to the chambers.
- He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated.
- The stool horns should project equally out from the side of the casing as it does from the front.
1. 3.1 A sharp promontory or mountain peak.
  尖岬；山峰
  Example sentencesExamples
  Amongst the glowing purples and reds of a Saharan sunset the silhouette of Mount Ktrik, its peak formed from two horns, began to look very sinister.
  But rounding the horn and coming back up the peninsula was another story.
2. 3.2 Cape Horn.
  合恩角
3. 3.3 An arm or branch of a river or bay.
  河汊；狭湾
4. 3.4 Each of the extremities of a crescent moon.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The bowed bottom of the anchor recalls the horns of the crescent moon, an attribute of the Egyptian goddess Isis, the queen of heaven and the virgin mother of Horus.
  The horns of the crescent moon were pointed almost straight up.
  Also, at high latitudes (close to the poles) the Moon never sticks its horns straight up.
5. 3.5British vulgar slang An erect penis.
  〈英，粗俚〉勃起的阴茎
4A wind instrument, conical in shape or wound into a spiral, originally made from an animal horn (now typically brass) and played by lip vibration.
号角
Example sentencesExamples
- At the conclusion eight horns (led by Michelle Perry of the Empire Brass) rang out triumphantly.
- Suddenly, the sharp call of a faraway horn caught the trio's attention.
- Around the clock, the coaches galloped down the towns' high streets with long brass horns blowing to warn pedestrians.
- Puck produces a horn, and raising it to his lips gives three blows.
- With a smooth, effortless movement, the killer kicked the master's horn over the edge of the balcony where it spun into the blackness below.
- So she took up the euphonium, a smaller horn that is a member of the tuba family.
- Her grandfather's horn sounded in the hilltop brush; the hounds burst into chorus.
- The pandemonium - for every horn must blare - cannot be imagined.
- It's the King coming and the sound of those who herald him with horns of brass pressed to their mouths.
- Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street.
- Suddenly she turned and vanished from the parapet; and all the time the sentry upon the wall blew out the long note from his brass horn.
- Could the Universe be shaped like a medieval horn?
- Behind the tumblers march musicians, playing early trumpets and horns.
- Valved horns were permitted, in the light of Wagner's own equivocation about them, joining those valved horn hybrids known as Wagner tubas.
- While the voices and sometimes tonal percussion leave you in no doubt about their West African roots, the horns echo African military bands and European / American brass bands.
- Notes from the organ and four horns drone and mimic cathedral bells.
- The lucky old sopranos only get blasted by the horns, which is much nicer.
- At their head stood Chief Hargougha with the horn raised to his mouth.
- Their origins lay among the huntsmen and foresters who had long used horns, either animal or metal, as a way of communicating in wooded areas.
1. 4.1
  short for French horn
  Example sentencesExamples
  The encore - Le Basque - by Marin Marais, arranged for horn and piano is an absolute charmer.
  During the summer months, she plays co-principal horn and is a featured soloist with the Capitol City Band.
  The orchestra is most likely to be double woodwind, horns and trumpets, harp, piano, percussion and strings.
  He uses brass - horns, in particular - recalling the grand heroic gestures of Romantic music.
  This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam.
  Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close.
  In the afternoon the quintet, which is made up of two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba, gave a concert in Marden House.
  There is some lovely playing, particularly from the woodwinds, but the horns, timpani and bass line are too recessed to have the necessary impact.
  Chailly has the vast canvas within his grasp from the very opening of those horns and brass that herald the mammoth journey.
  The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
  And when before have clarinets and horns been so mellowly blended?
  The brass section of an orchestra typically consists of trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas.
  He transcribed them and set about making a set of 14 parts for horns, trumpets, trombones and timpani.
  Peter von Winter's contribution is a Sinfonia concertante for violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra.
  The quintet of oboe, flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon is led by Howard Nelson and will present a programme of contrasting chamber music.
  The finale is for full orchestra with unison horns and trumpets rousingly playing Purcell's theme at the end.
  The NYOI is joined by the Wind Quintet of Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra which includes oboe, clarinet, horn, flute and bassoon.
  There surely must have been a hint of gold in music for woodwind and horns for Mozart to have dressed his offerings in such a resplendent manner.
  Right at the end, horns, trumpets, trombones intone the symphony's opening phrase - we have returned full circle.
  He wants to tell a joke that only horn players will really appreciate.
2. 4.2informal (in jazz and popular music) any wind instrument.
  〈非正式〉（爵士乐及流行乐中的任何一种）管乐器
  keyboards, horns, and drums
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was easy for Buddy to copy the horn riffs on the songs on his guitar.
  Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms.
  The horns front a rhythm section that includes three percussionists armed with congas and bata drums, with no piano or guitar in the middle to mediate.
  Byron Wallen switches between trumpet and flugelhorn, whilst Ed Jones likewise moves from soprano to tenor horns.
  On their debut full-length, they combine syncopated ska guitars, manic horns, driving punk rhythms and frontman Tomas Kalnoky's raspy vocals.
  The Burr and Burton Academy band, crisp in summer whites accented with mountain green, contributes brass, drums, and horns.
  The majority of this album is built up around similar ambiences as the trio elaborate poignant melodies and impressive arrangements, complete with guitars, strings and horns.
  Eventually the band bounded onstage - horns blaring, double bass pounding and trumpets proclaiming that yes indeed, the mighty Skatalites had arrived.
  He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips.
  Lester has already received my billing, so I'll just start tooting Mike Megrew's horn instead.
  I remember sitting there at the Polo Grounds, and there was a guy sitting near me in the stands blowing this mournful horn.
  Standard beats, smooth keyboards synthesized horns and other instruments, and one repeating vocal sample is the blueprint here.
  Guitarist McGarvey sways backwards and forwards on his wah-wah pedal as the nine-piece band with full horn section segues seamlessly from Shaft to Bullitt.
  By the time the song proper kicks back in towards the end, everyone has melted so thoroughly that those upbeat horns and charging drums are actually a shock.
  They're textbooks on how strings, horns, brass, rhythm and vocal should be laid down.
  A man playing his horn hid behind a wall, and quickly snapped up the change I tossed in his case.
  At age seven, he received his first horn, a cornet.
  Another veteran Etoiles hero, Syran Mbenza, adds in the gently rousing guitar solos, while horns, violin and accordion provide the backing.
  In almost every song there is an acoustic element of either guitar, piano, horns, or vibraphones present in the mix.
  What You Want is a sweet love song, with some lazy Burt Bacharach style horns floating over the melody.
5A device sounding a warning or other signal.
警报器；喇叭
a car horn
汽车喇叭。
Example sentencesExamples
- A horn sounded, signalling the arrival of Peter's opponent.
- I must have spaced out, because before I knew it there was a great blare of horns behind me.
- They hold the moment for a little longer, not noticing the light turning green until a horn sounds from behind.
- In Beijing the sounding of car horns is the exception, rather than the rule while Shanghainese seem to hardly ever take their hand off the klaxon button.
- He sounded his warning horn, but Sgt Moodie's only response was to turn his back to the oncoming train.
- I jumped when I heard a horn honk behind me and spun around, as a familiar black car pulled up.
- I had tooted my horn to warn a cyclist that I was behind him.
- Another time, Li just couldn't get her car to start up at an intersection when the light turned green, leaving a whole line of vehicles blaring their horns behind her.
- Cameron stepped on the gas harder, honked the horn to warn a group of teenagers who were considering stepping onto the road right in front of him.
- In the distance, horns sounded as the royal army began riding out from behind the castle walls.
- The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish crossing.
- As she was trying to clean up the mess, using a box of tissues, she heard the honking of a horn behind her.
- Car drivers use their horns to signal their support.
- We were in the middle of kissing when a car horn blasted behind us.
- The pilot initiated an emergency descent after a warning horn sounded when the plane reached its cruising height of 32,000 ft.
- He exclaimed to himself before someone behind him honked their horn.
- In the third frame, the two clubs combined for four goals before the horn sounded to signal the end of the game.
- The bus driver sounded his horn, whereupon the car driver deliberately reduced his speed and delayed the progress of the bus.
- Jill sped past, cursing at the horns honking behind her.
- A horn blasted behind Adam and he eased off the brake.
Synonyms
siren, warning sound, alarm signal, danger signal, distress signal, alert

verb hɔːnhɔrn

[with object]

1(of an animal) butt or gore with the horns.
（动物）用角抵撞（或顶撞）
the bull horned him out of the way
Synonyms
pierce, stab, stick, impale, puncture, penetrate, spear, spit
2West Indian Be unfaithful to (one's husband or wife)
对（丈夫或妻子）不忠诚
all the time he was horning his wife
他一直对他的妻子不忠。
Example sentencesExamples
- They said ‘If yuh was getting horn, which would you prefer your partner to be horning you with, a member of the same sex or a member of the opposite sex?’
- No parang song has ever created animosity, incited anarchy, induced horning, glorified carnage, supported drug abuse or unprotected sex, condoned domestic violence or maligned any person.
- In foreign countries, there is more horning, more deaths by murder and diseases of anger, more imprisonment, more self-abuse and abuse to others, and many Trinidadian families ask their family members to leave their homes.

Phrases

blow (or toot) one's own horn

informal Talk boastfully about oneself or one's achievements.
〈北美，非正式〉吹嘘自己（或自己的成绩）
Example sentencesExamples
- He's not a person that blows his own horn at all.
- Don't envy, don't boast, don't toot your own horn - ever.
- In other words, you're not just blowing your own horn.
- To toot my own horn, I've been referred to as ‘hot’ upon more than one occasion.
- I hate to toot my own horn but this is a pretty huge paradigm shift for me.
- Do not be conceited, he who blows his own horn will find people are quick to get out of his way.
- We are not trying to toot our own horn by praising the achievements of Taiwan's agricultural technical teams.
- Anyhow - I'm not writing to toot my own horn, I am writing to toot yours.
- Now, not to toot my own horn, but don't you think I deserve some credit in this scenario?
- He's certainly not shy about tooting his own horn in regard to some of the decisions that were made concerning the script and location shooting.
Synonyms
boast, brag, sing one's own praises, show off, swank, congratulate oneself

draw (or pull) in one's horns

Become less assertive or ambitious.
收敛（傲气或野心）
Example sentencesExamples
- Nonetheless, what we should do is to make a serious analytical effort to determine what overseas military commitments make sense and where we should pull in our horns.
- A leader emboldened by four more years, with a greater mandate, is hardly likely to pull in his horns.
- The question is not whether consumers will draw in their horns, but how they will do so?
- Small wonder they drew in their horns and did nothing with it for a few years.
- I think a lot of companies, because of the economic situation, are pulling in their horns.
- This is not an argument for pulling in our horns.
- Individuals and businesses will pull in their horns.
- I believe that both companies will suffer when consumers are eventually forced to draw in their horns, which is why I'll be giving their shares a miss.
- Companies that discover what their clients really want and respond with innovative products creatively sold can increase their share and earnings even when many consumers are drawing in their horns.
- And from my point of view, he was one of those players who needed a shock to pull his horns in.

on the horn
〈北美，非正式〉通电话，打电话

informal On the telephone.
〈北美，非正式〉通电话，打电话
she got on the horn to complain
她打电话抱怨。
Example sentencesExamples
- Just get on the horn and phone up your local Christian radio station and tell them that you have just got to hear that new single by the David Crowder Band.
- Olympia Snowe apparently needed to sidestep the machinery of legislative liaisons and the Senate leadership and get on the horn and tell Hughes, Card, et al. just what hell was going on.
- So my boss gets on the horn with one of the producers and insists that they let me meet with our client before he goes on the air.
- Unless you live in Melrose Place, they probably won't come, but they'll be less likely to get on the horn to the police and noise complaint department if you've made the effort.
- Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this.
- The Mirror got the pair on the horn for a conference call.
- The Mirror recently got on the horn with McFarlane at his L.A. office.
- Get that helicopter pilot on the horn, ASAP, tell him I'll be needing some things from home!
- If you live in one of the states where this stuff is being considered, I urge you to find out who your state representatives are and get on the horn, early and often, to let them know what you think of this idea.
- The task of finding guests - more than two dozen at last count - has fallen to Butcher, and he's been on the horn with consulates around the world, rounding up cartoonists to import.

on the horns of a dilemma

Faced with a decision involving equally unfavourable alternatives.
进退两难，进退维谷
Example sentencesExamples
- Scottish solicitors find themselves on the horns of a dilemma in attempting to comply with recent money laundering legislation, according to Joe Platt, president of the Law Society of Scotland.
- Families whose daughters entered convents often found themselves on the horns of a dilemma.
- Once more I find myself squirming on the horns of a dilemma.
- Meanwhile, at the Erinsborough Clinic, the young hairless harpy, found herself on the horns of a dilemma, so to speak.
- Republicans are stuck on the horns of a dilemma.
- Yorkshire are on the horns of a dilemma as they await medical opinion over how long their Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey could be sidelined with a hamstring injury.
- The judge admitted he was on the horns of a dilemma.
- In other words, they're on the horns of a dilemma, given their positions taken earlier on the cost of drugs.
- The Brooklyn Museum of Art, like many of its counterparts across the country, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.
- So the government is impaled on the horns of a dilemma.
Synonyms
between the devil and the deep blue sea, between Scylla and Charybdis
informal in a no-win situation, between a rock and a hard place

Phrasal Verbs

horn in

Intrude or interfere.
〈非正式〉侵入；干涉，打扰
who asked you to horn in?
Example sentencesExamples
- He considered her ‘interference ‘as horning in on HIS customer.
- I was doing that eons before this two-bit hustler started horning in on the action.
- And never mind the people on the waiting list who were bumped off because someone else with more money horned his way in.
- But things changed when digital cameras began horning in on film's turf.
- Fark seems to be horning in on Something Awful's racket.
- Busily I raced around New York, horning in on investors' conferences, eager to meet a financial guru or an entrepreneur who could teach me something.
- Yeah, then we got all these amateurs horning into the field, and felony fashions just went down the toilet.
- Then Nelson and David Rockefeller horned their way in, and the spotlight moved to the Trilateral Commission.
- A TV reporter was canned by WCBS yesterday after he shouted the F-word at two meddlers who horned in on his live shot.
- When asked how he feels about TAAFI horning in on his still-developing territory, he is quick to brush away any suggested rivalry.
- Socialist Workers try to horn in on every hot issue and march, but it seems that other groups aren't as bothered by this as they used to be.

Derivatives

hornist

nounˈhɔːnɪstˈhɔrnəst

A person who plays a horn, especially the French horn.
he had been the principal hornist for the New York Philharmonic
Example sentencesExamples
- Jaclyn, a student of D. Bruce Helm, also serves as the principal hornist for the Louisville Youth orchestra, where she has been a member for four years.
- Marie Masters was the soloist, and the hornists were Richard King, David Brockett, Hans Clebsch and Richard Solis.
- It is likely that these works were written for two accomplished hornists, Joseph Nagel and Franz Zwierzina, who played in the Wallerstein court orchestra in the early 1780s.

hornless

adjective ˈhɔːnləsˈhɔrnləs

He didn't ask about her poor hornless unicorn that didn't speak.
Example sentencesExamples
- Increases in the mean male body size in a population are therefore predicted to cause increases in the threshold body size that separates horned and hornless male morphs.
- The modern Irish hornless breed known as the Moylie is typically ‘red-brown with white faces, and a continuous white stripe along their backs, or almost entirely white with red ears and muzzles’.
- At Ali Kosh in the southern Zagros Mountains of Iran, an assemblage dating to about 7000 BC that includes hornless sheep is taken as clear evidence of flock manipulation.
- This particular type of animal is, indeed, extremely rare as hornless ewes comprise less than one per cent of this breed and total breed numbers are only around 5,000.

horn-like

adjective

This touch-sensitive work consists of a series of horn-like spikes protruding from two circular discs that are hung on a wall like a painting.
Example sentencesExamples
- Its timbre is horn-like, but it has a restricted range - as few as five notes - and its notes aren't even of equal quality, so composers need to dance around its limitations with deftness.
- Gilmour has inherited Wes Montgomery's style of playing horn-like lines on the guitar.
- How cassowaries produce their deep ‘boom’ is unclear, though Mack and his team speculate that cassowary communication is linked to the tall casques, or horn-like crests, that rise from the bird's head.
- These included horn-like ear trumpets, which were made from wood, various metals, or even adapted conch shells, whose effectiveness in transmitting sound depended on their length and shape.

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoorn and German Horn, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cornu and Greek keras.

The word horn is related to corn ‘a painful area of thickened skin’, and cornea (Late Middle English) through its ancestor Latin cornu ‘horn’. In to draw (or pull) in your horns, ‘to become less assertive or ambitious’, the image is of a snail drawing in its eyestalks and retreating into its shell when disturbed. See dilemma

Rhymes

adorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, pawn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, suborn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn, yawn

Definition of horn in US English:

horn

nounhɔrnhôrn

1A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.
（牛、羊、长颈鹿等的）角
Example sentencesExamples
- Pan is most often portrayed with the torso of a man, the hooved legs and twisty horns of a wild goat, and the capricious face of a human.
- Most noticeable were two giant goat horns protruding from its head.
- At the end of these two cows' horns are attached, and to the horns two large goat skin bellows, one each side of the furnace.
- Some specimens even sport multiple pairs of horns, between four and six inches long.
- The only difference between them was the ram's horns on one's head and the goat horns on the other.
- Other participants perform libation using Scotch or other similar liquor by pouring from a ram's horn.
- The horns of cows and sheep grow over a bony core that resembles the horn in shape, so anything with a slightly twisted cone of rough-surfaced bone is unlikely to be human.
- Ankole cattle, from the great lakes region of East Africa, are also bred for horn shape and size.
- On his belt he carries several knives, and a ram's horn for blowing.
- Texas is a place where everything is bigger, the adage goes, and that's as true of our lakes as of the horns on our cattle and the tires on our pickups.
- What artist would represent cattle without horns?
- During their first cold winter, Lewis shipped a collection of skins, horns, skeletons, and prairie plants back down the Missouri.
- It is like looking at a pair of cattle horns, is it not?
- It was imperative that all ritual was accompanied by the correct type of bull according to its colour, markings and horn shape to ensure the efficacy of the ritual.
- In contrast, both sexes of many other hoofed mammals have permanent, hollow horns.
- Before that, ales, which were typically dark and cloudy with yeast, were served in everything from mugs and tankards to goat horns and the chalices of kings.
- At the festival itself, some of the men wear small goat horns attached to their heads, giving them a rather satyr like appearance.
- Here the cows were small with slender horns and the sheep quite goat-like.
- At the town's market, I had discovered the magnificent horns of a blue sheep while examining wildlife body parts being offered for sale.
- Male bighorn sheep with the largest horns, for instance, have the highest social rank and are more likely to mate.
1. 1.1 A woolly keratinized outgrowth, occurring singly or one behind another, on the snout of a rhinoceros.
  （犀牛长鼻子上的）触角
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Reserve has a similar program with rhinoceros where a microchip is implanted in the animal's horn both for identification purposes and to deter poaching.
  He flew up to where Element was situated, his sword floating up in front of him like a rhino's horn.
  He fell to the ground, the large rhino horn protruding from his chest while black, sticky blood pooled around him.
  Medieval explorers, coming across the rhinoceros, described it as a fierce animal like a big horse with a single horn on its nose.
  The soldiers allegedly used the stolen money to buy items as diverse as cameras and rhinoceros horns, the officials said.
  Now what about the issue of rhinoceros and the horns?
  Is it the rhinoceros with its aphrodisiac horn and herbivorous browsing?
  The Rhino's horn is not a true horn, but consists of compressed hair, and the animal prefers to defend itself with its canine teeth with which it can make horrible gashes.
  Without their commanding horn the rhinoceros present a forlorn image.
  Other times and places he wore elk antlers instead, or the fibrous horns of a rhino, dancing about the walls of torch-lit caverns with feather and paw, fin and claw.
  We had just completed a night safari, coming nose to horn with a rhino who proceeded to chase the jeep.
  The African rhino species have two horns, one behind the other, and have smooth, gray skin.
2. 1.2 A deer's antler.
  鹿角
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most fights involve hooking uppercuts or a cautious locking of horns or shoving head to head, ending when one animal signals submission and the winner lets him go.
  There were the skulls of all manner of strange mountain animals, stags' horns, stuffed owls…
  Suddenly, she saw the big buck, its crescent horns piercing the blue sky.
  He ate the deer and displayed its horns on the tractor as a trophy.
  Most of the venison comes from fallow deer, the kind that drop their horns in April and May in the park at Richmond; these are the usual inhabitants of deer parks.
  Behind him was a deer with great horns that twisted and turned in every direction.
  And then we rounded a corner and there was a male ibex nibbling on a tuft of grass, throwing his horns back every now and then as if troubled by a gigantic and very heavy quiff.
  I ate my first bloody rare steak and you shot the coyote that still hangs in the family room next to one of your other first trophies, the thick horns of a mule deer.
  She crawled over and lay next to him, looking over the log to see a family of deer, a doe and three babies, their horns barely coming up.
  The deer brought him to where Rishyashringa was, and Vibondaka saw this shining young baby with deer horns.
  This is also in accord with beliefs concerning a white ibex or deer in the Caucasus Mountains, although these concern the animal's meat or milk rather than its horn.
  Deer horns are mounted on top of a kostoweh worn by a leader.
  Though later the victory of Enigorio, using deer horns, suggests some special status or power of the deer, Cusick never lingers on such spots.
  Solid horns, called antlers, distinguish most species in the deer family from the other hoofed mammals.
  It always ends with death whether it is the death of our prey and our subsequent feast or the tragic death of a pack member, caught by the horns of an elk or trampled by deer.
  Thinking it was some deer caught in an aged trap or caught by its horns, she dropped her pail, running immediately to the place.
  You could have been given spider webs and violet fabric to wrap your chancre or sip tea made from deer horns but you were most likely to be dosed up with toxic heavy metals.
3. 1.3 A projection resembling a horn on the head of another animal, e.g., a snail's tentacle or the tuft of a horned owl.
  （其他动物头上的）角状物（例如蜗牛的触角、角鸮的冠毛）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The lad noticed the stranger's ink-black hair and the horns that grew upon his head.
  The dorsal gray horn receives incoming or afferent fibers.
  In some boxfishes, such as the aptly named cowfishes, the keels extend forward, beyond the body, to form sharp horns.
  Any animal fairly bristling with long, pointed horns and spikes simply looks ready to fend off any and all would-be predators.
  Many living animals have horns or hornlike organs; the list includes antelope, deer, chameleons, birds, and even ants.
  The man has stopped to look at a slug, which has horns and a slick skin, but they only know he has stopped.
  Many of his contemporaries derided him as ‘a hesitating cow’ or ‘a bull with snail's horns.’
  This contrasts with the horns of artiodactyls, which have bone cores, are paired, and are located on the frontals.
  The figure was bald, and sported several horns where hair should have grown.
  The creature within is like a huge snail with horns tipped by bright golden eyes.
  She sighed as she looked down at the water and saw not only her reflection but a figure with brown hair and horns looking into the pond as well.
  And I don't want to cut off the horns of a black snail.
  Synonyms
  antenna, tentacle
4. 1.4hornsarchaic A pair of horns as an emblem of a cuckold.
  〈古〉绿帽子（妻子有外遇者的标志）
2The substance of which horns are composed.
角质物
powdered rhino horn
犀牛角粉。
Example sentencesExamples
- Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part.
- It seems the Chinese believe that this rhino's horn cures everything from lumbago to laryngitis, and they will pay anything to get it.
- Rhino horn is said to make men sexually unstoppable, and asparagus, bananas, eels, oysters, figs and ginseng are all reputed to get you going.
- Tiger bone is used to treat arthritis and muscular atrophy, and rhino horn to treat fevers, convulsions, and delirium.
- The same is true for the cost of rhino horn, but the whole story is even a bit more complicated.
- Hand-crafted objects are made in wood, leather, horn, metal, stone, mineral, clay, cloth, and feathers.
- We do have things like rhino horn occasionally, and tiger fur, not on a huge scale, but it still happens.
- In Yemen, for example, rhino horn is carved into handles used in daggers called jambiyas.
- Throw a tax cut their way, the argument goes, and like lovers haplessly lost to the aphrodisiacal effects of ground rhino horn, they'll be putty in your hands.
- The bow itself could be simply of wood or of a composite of horn or whalebone placed between two thin pieces of yew and covered in tendon, while steel bows appear from the 14th century.
- To date we've examined over 1,000 rhino horn pills; we've never found a real one.
- I know this because I recently went into Gap to try on a nice grey cardigan with dark-green trim and horn buttons, mindful that this could be my key purchase for autumn 2004.
- This netsuke of a seated deer howling at the moon stands 9.7 cm in height, and was carved in the Edo period from ivory with dark horn inlaid for eyes.
- But the proteins on our outside - in skin, hair, and nail, as well as animal horn and hoof - are of a different kind.
- Obviously rhino horn has nothing to do with genitalia.
- Based on these measurements, the horn capsule of the claw is a composite of horn produced over the past 12 to 15 months.
- Since Viagra gets it up more reliably than powdered horn, Asia has made a quick switch, and poachers have lost market share.
- It must be dissolved slowly in water, over several days and then filtered to remove traces of Acacia tree bark, elephant hide and rhino horn.
- One trader along the border of what are today South Africa and Botswana employed 400 African hunters in the pursuit of rhino horn.
- The reference to horn and ivory show that composite bows were known, and the inclusion of yew shows they knew of this best of bow timbers.
1. 2.1 A receptacle or instrument made of horn, such as a drinking container or powder flask.
  角质容器（或器具）（如喝酒容器、火药筒）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then he grabbed his ration pack, gunpowder horn, and bullet bag.
  My current practice goes far better when I've had a couple of bottles / horns of beer or cider.
  Horns are used as butter dishes and large horns as cups for drinking mead.
  He has raised a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he promised through holy prophets long ago.
  I watched his hands, tipping measured amounts of powder from a pewter horn, tapping in a ball and wad with a short ramrod.
  The soldier blinked repeatedly and then raised his horn to his lips.
  Drink was taken in horns, similarly decorated and sometimes with metal tips and rims.
3A horn-shaped projection.
角状突起物
Example sentencesExamples
- The stool horns should project equally out from the side of the casing as it does from the front.
- Michael's headlong flight meant he and Kieran were going to clip off the vanguard of the right horn of the crescent.
- America's riches are pulling people all along the continent's Hispanic horn on a great migration to the place they call El Norte.
- The posterior horns are present and normal and contain normal choroid plexus.
- At the front are two projecting horns flanking a forecourt, at the back of which is the entrance to the chambers.
- He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated.
- The tail occupies a position in the roof of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle.
- The headdress with its straight, sharp horns holds out a model of a very different sort of response - that of active fight and resistance.
- Half of the left uterine horn was fixed in Bouin's fixative, and processed routinely for immunohistochemistry.
- There's a cartoon: a man wrapped in a tuba, its horn gaping over his head.
- Performers projected into a horn, and the vibrations were directly converted into the wiggles of a groove on the master disc.
1. 3.1 A sharp promontory or mountain peak.
  尖岬；山峰
  Example sentencesExamples
  Amongst the glowing purples and reds of a Saharan sunset the silhouette of Mount Ktrik, its peak formed from two horns, began to look very sinister.
  But rounding the horn and coming back up the peninsula was another story.
2. 3.2 A raised projection on the pommel of a Western saddle.
  slung from the horn of his saddle was a leather bag
  Example sentencesExamples
  The front horns permitted putting considerably more poundage behind the lance thrust than was possible with a pad saddle.
  He thanked god there was no saddle horn as Felix climbed up behind him.
  Trapping of fingers between the rope and saddle horn can cause multiple finger injuries.
  Angie mounted her horse, grabbing the reins with one hand, holding them above the horn of the western saddle.
  At that, Cirrus, who until now had been sitting on Hiera's saddle horn, spread his wings and uttered a single short shriek.
  A hand moved hers aside to grab the saddle horn and then he heaved himself up on the beast behind her.
  Still gripping the rope, Gritts tied one end of the rope to General's saddle horn and climbed back on.
  They had to pry his fingers from the saddle horn one at a time to get him down and into the house.
  He delayed his reply while he grabbed a hold of the saddle horn and mounted, fighting to control his emotions and well aware that Adam was studying him.
  Standing in the doorway, he looped the lead around the saddle horn.
  When he grabs hold of it I tie the other end to Dartanian's saddle horn.
  She had each horse's bridle on the horn too, and had a pile of blankets.
  He helped her get on her mare, then he grabbed Lady's saddle horn, and pulled himself on with great effort.
3. 3.3the Horn Cape Horn.
  合恩角
4. 3.4 An arm or branch of a river or bay.
  河汊；狭湾
5. 3.5 Each of the extremities of a crescent moon.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The horns of the crescent moon were pointed almost straight up.
  Also, at high latitudes (close to the poles) the Moon never sticks its horns straight up.
  The bowed bottom of the anchor recalls the horns of the crescent moon, an attribute of the Egyptian goddess Isis, the queen of heaven and the virgin mother of Horus.
6. 3.6British vulgar slang An erect penis.
  〈英，粗俚〉勃起的阴茎
4A wind instrument, conical in shape or wound into a spiral, originally made from an animal horn (now typically brass) and played by lip vibration.
号角
Example sentencesExamples
- Suddenly, the sharp call of a faraway horn caught the trio's attention.
- Suddenly she turned and vanished from the parapet; and all the time the sentry upon the wall blew out the long note from his brass horn.
- Their origins lay among the huntsmen and foresters who had long used horns, either animal or metal, as a way of communicating in wooded areas.
- It's the King coming and the sound of those who herald him with horns of brass pressed to their mouths.
- Her grandfather's horn sounded in the hilltop brush; the hounds burst into chorus.
- Puck produces a horn, and raising it to his lips gives three blows.
- With a smooth, effortless movement, the killer kicked the master's horn over the edge of the balcony where it spun into the blackness below.
- Notes from the organ and four horns drone and mimic cathedral bells.
- Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street.
- Behind the tumblers march musicians, playing early trumpets and horns.
- Valved horns were permitted, in the light of Wagner's own equivocation about them, joining those valved horn hybrids known as Wagner tubas.
- The pandemonium - for every horn must blare - cannot be imagined.
- At their head stood Chief Hargougha with the horn raised to his mouth.
- While the voices and sometimes tonal percussion leave you in no doubt about their West African roots, the horns echo African military bands and European / American brass bands.
- So she took up the euphonium, a smaller horn that is a member of the tuba family.
- Could the Universe be shaped like a medieval horn?
- At the conclusion eight horns (led by Michelle Perry of the Empire Brass) rang out triumphantly.
- The lucky old sopranos only get blasted by the horns, which is much nicer.
- Around the clock, the coaches galloped down the towns' high streets with long brass horns blowing to warn pedestrians.
1. 4.1
  short for French horn
  Example sentencesExamples
  The orchestra is most likely to be double woodwind, horns and trumpets, harp, piano, percussion and strings.
  This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam.
  The encore - Le Basque - by Marin Marais, arranged for horn and piano is an absolute charmer.
  He transcribed them and set about making a set of 14 parts for horns, trumpets, trombones and timpani.
  Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close.
  There is some lovely playing, particularly from the woodwinds, but the horns, timpani and bass line are too recessed to have the necessary impact.
  He wants to tell a joke that only horn players will really appreciate.
  He uses brass - horns, in particular - recalling the grand heroic gestures of Romantic music.
  Peter von Winter's contribution is a Sinfonia concertante for violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra.
  During the summer months, she plays co-principal horn and is a featured soloist with the Capitol City Band.
  The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
  Chailly has the vast canvas within his grasp from the very opening of those horns and brass that herald the mammoth journey.
  The quintet of oboe, flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon is led by Howard Nelson and will present a programme of contrasting chamber music.
  Right at the end, horns, trumpets, trombones intone the symphony's opening phrase - we have returned full circle.
  The brass section of an orchestra typically consists of trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas.
  There surely must have been a hint of gold in music for woodwind and horns for Mozart to have dressed his offerings in such a resplendent manner.
  The NYOI is joined by the Wind Quintet of Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra which includes oboe, clarinet, horn, flute and bassoon.
  In the afternoon the quintet, which is made up of two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba, gave a concert in Marden House.
  The finale is for full orchestra with unison horns and trumpets rousingly playing Purcell's theme at the end.
  And when before have clarinets and horns been so mellowly blended?
5An instrument sounding a warning or other signal.
警报器；喇叭
a car horn
汽车喇叭。
Example sentencesExamples
- Car drivers use their horns to signal their support.
- He exclaimed to himself before someone behind him honked their horn.
- I jumped when I heard a horn honk behind me and spun around, as a familiar black car pulled up.
- The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish crossing.
- Jill sped past, cursing at the horns honking behind her.
- I had tooted my horn to warn a cyclist that I was behind him.
- In Beijing the sounding of car horns is the exception, rather than the rule while Shanghainese seem to hardly ever take their hand off the klaxon button.
- We were in the middle of kissing when a car horn blasted behind us.
- He sounded his warning horn, but Sgt Moodie's only response was to turn his back to the oncoming train.
- A horn sounded, signalling the arrival of Peter's opponent.
- They hold the moment for a little longer, not noticing the light turning green until a horn sounds from behind.
- As she was trying to clean up the mess, using a box of tissues, she heard the honking of a horn behind her.
- In the distance, horns sounded as the royal army began riding out from behind the castle walls.
- In the third frame, the two clubs combined for four goals before the horn sounded to signal the end of the game.
- I must have spaced out, because before I knew it there was a great blare of horns behind me.
- Cameron stepped on the gas harder, honked the horn to warn a group of teenagers who were considering stepping onto the road right in front of him.
- A horn blasted behind Adam and he eased off the brake.
- The pilot initiated an emergency descent after a warning horn sounded when the plane reached its cruising height of 32,000 ft.
- Another time, Li just couldn't get her car to start up at an intersection when the light turned green, leaving a whole line of vehicles blaring their horns behind her.
- The bus driver sounded his horn, whereupon the car driver deliberately reduced his speed and delayed the progress of the bus.
Synonyms
siren, warning sound, alarm signal, danger signal, distress signal, alert

verbhɔrnhôrn

[with object]

(of an animal) butt or gore with the horns.
（动物）用角抵撞（或顶撞）
Synonyms
pierce, stab, stick, impale, puncture, penetrate, spear, spit

Phrases

blow (or toot) one's own horn

informal Talk boastfully about oneself or one's achievements.
〈北美，非正式〉吹嘘自己（或自己的成绩）
Example sentencesExamples
- Now, not to toot my own horn, but don't you think I deserve some credit in this scenario?
- He's certainly not shy about tooting his own horn in regard to some of the decisions that were made concerning the script and location shooting.
- Don't envy, don't boast, don't toot your own horn - ever.
- Anyhow - I'm not writing to toot my own horn, I am writing to toot yours.
- To toot my own horn, I've been referred to as ‘hot’ upon more than one occasion.
- He's not a person that blows his own horn at all.
- We are not trying to toot our own horn by praising the achievements of Taiwan's agricultural technical teams.
- Do not be conceited, he who blows his own horn will find people are quick to get out of his way.
- In other words, you're not just blowing your own horn.
- I hate to toot my own horn but this is a pretty huge paradigm shift for me.
Synonyms
boast, brag, sing one's own praises, show off, swank, congratulate oneself

draw (or pull) in one's horns

Become less assertive or ambitious.
收敛（傲气或野心）
Example sentencesExamples
- And from my point of view, he was one of those players who needed a shock to pull his horns in.
- I believe that both companies will suffer when consumers are eventually forced to draw in their horns, which is why I'll be giving their shares a miss.
- Companies that discover what their clients really want and respond with innovative products creatively sold can increase their share and earnings even when many consumers are drawing in their horns.
- Small wonder they drew in their horns and did nothing with it for a few years.
- This is not an argument for pulling in our horns.
- I think a lot of companies, because of the economic situation, are pulling in their horns.
- The question is not whether consumers will draw in their horns, but how they will do so?
- A leader emboldened by four more years, with a greater mandate, is hardly likely to pull in his horns.
- Individuals and businesses will pull in their horns.
- Nonetheless, what we should do is to make a serious analytical effort to determine what overseas military commitments make sense and where we should pull in our horns.

on the horn
〈北美，非正式〉通电话，打电话

informal On the telephone.
〈北美，非正式〉通电话，打电话
she got on the horn to complain
她打电话抱怨。
Example sentencesExamples
- So my boss gets on the horn with one of the producers and insists that they let me meet with our client before he goes on the air.
- The Mirror recently got on the horn with McFarlane at his L.A. office.
- The task of finding guests - more than two dozen at last count - has fallen to Butcher, and he's been on the horn with consulates around the world, rounding up cartoonists to import.
- Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this.
- Olympia Snowe apparently needed to sidestep the machinery of legislative liaisons and the Senate leadership and get on the horn and tell Hughes, Card, et al. just what hell was going on.
- Get that helicopter pilot on the horn, ASAP, tell him I'll be needing some things from home!
- Unless you live in Melrose Place, they probably won't come, but they'll be less likely to get on the horn to the police and noise complaint department if you've made the effort.
- Just get on the horn and phone up your local Christian radio station and tell them that you have just got to hear that new single by the David Crowder Band.
- The Mirror got the pair on the horn for a conference call.
- If you live in one of the states where this stuff is being considered, I urge you to find out who your state representatives are and get on the horn, early and often, to let them know what you think of this idea.

on the horns of a dilemma

Faced with a decision involving equally unfavorable alternatives.
进退两难，进退维谷
Example sentencesExamples
- In other words, they're on the horns of a dilemma, given their positions taken earlier on the cost of drugs.
- Once more I find myself squirming on the horns of a dilemma.
- Scottish solicitors find themselves on the horns of a dilemma in attempting to comply with recent money laundering legislation, according to Joe Platt, president of the Law Society of Scotland.
- Meanwhile, at the Erinsborough Clinic, the young hairless harpy, found herself on the horns of a dilemma, so to speak.
- Families whose daughters entered convents often found themselves on the horns of a dilemma.
- Yorkshire are on the horns of a dilemma as they await medical opinion over how long their Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey could be sidelined with a hamstring injury.
- The judge admitted he was on the horns of a dilemma.
- The Brooklyn Museum of Art, like many of its counterparts across the country, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.
- So the government is impaled on the horns of a dilemma.
- Republicans are stuck on the horns of a dilemma.
Synonyms
between the devil and the deep blue sea, between scylla and charybdis

Phrasal Verbs

horn in

Intrude or interfere.
〈非正式〉侵入；干涉，打扰
Example sentencesExamples
- He considered her ‘interference ‘as horning in on HIS customer.
- I was doing that eons before this two-bit hustler started horning in on the action.
- Yeah, then we got all these amateurs horning into the field, and felony fashions just went down the toilet.
- A TV reporter was canned by WCBS yesterday after he shouted the F-word at two meddlers who horned in on his live shot.
- But things changed when digital cameras began horning in on film's turf.
- Then Nelson and David Rockefeller horned their way in, and the spotlight moved to the Trilateral Commission.
- And never mind the people on the waiting list who were bumped off because someone else with more money horned his way in.
- Fark seems to be horning in on Something Awful's racket.
- When asked how he feels about TAAFI horning in on his still-developing territory, he is quick to brush away any suggested rivalry.
- Busily I raced around New York, horning in on investors' conferences, eager to meet a financial guru or an entrepreneur who could teach me something.
- Socialist Workers try to horn in on every hot issue and march, but it seems that other groups aren't as bothered by this as they used to be.

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoorn and German Horn, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cornu and Greek keras.

词汇	horn
释义	Definition of horn in English: horn noun hɔːnhɔrn 1A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin. （牛、羊、长颈鹿等的）角 Example sentencesExamples Other participants perform libation using Scotch or other similar liquor by pouring from a ram's horn. During their first cold winter, Lewis shipped a collection of skins, horns, skeletons, and prairie plants back down the Missouri. What artist would represent cattle without horns? At the festival itself, some of the men wear small goat horns attached to their heads, giving them a rather satyr like appearance. Male bighorn sheep with the largest horns, for instance, have the highest social rank and are more likely to mate. Before that, ales, which were typically dark and cloudy with yeast, were served in everything from mugs and tankards to goat horns and the chalices of kings. Pan is most often portrayed with the torso of a man, the hooved legs and twisty horns of a wild goat, and the capricious face of a human. The horns of cows and sheep grow over a bony core that resembles the horn in shape, so anything with a slightly twisted cone of rough-surfaced bone is unlikely to be human. Most noticeable were two giant goat horns protruding from its head. Some specimens even sport multiple pairs of horns, between four and six inches long. In contrast, both sexes of many other hoofed mammals have permanent, hollow horns. At the town's market, I had discovered the magnificent horns of a blue sheep while examining wildlife body parts being offered for sale. The only difference between them was the ram's horns on one's head and the goat horns on the other. It was imperative that all ritual was accompanied by the correct type of bull according to its colour, markings and horn shape to ensure the efficacy of the ritual. At the end of these two cows' horns are attached, and to the horns two large goat skin bellows, one each side of the furnace. On his belt he carries several knives, and a ram's horn for blowing. Ankole cattle, from the great lakes region of East Africa, are also bred for horn shape and size. It is like looking at a pair of cattle horns, is it not? Texas is a place where everything is bigger, the adage goes, and that's as true of our lakes as of the horns on our cattle and the tires on our pickups. Here the cows were small with slender horns and the sheep quite goat-like. 1.1 A woolly keratinized outgrowth, occurring singly or one behind another, on the snout of a rhinoceros. （犀牛长鼻子上的）触角 Example sentencesExamples The Rhino's horn is not a true horn, but consists of compressed hair, and the animal prefers to defend itself with its canine teeth with which it can make horrible gashes. The African rhino species have two horns, one behind the other, and have smooth, gray skin. He flew up to where Element was situated, his sword floating up in front of him like a rhino's horn. We had just completed a night safari, coming nose to horn with a rhino who proceeded to chase the jeep. The soldiers allegedly used the stolen money to buy items as diverse as cameras and rhinoceros horns, the officials said. Is it the rhinoceros with its aphrodisiac horn and herbivorous browsing? Now what about the issue of rhinoceros and the horns? Medieval explorers, coming across the rhinoceros, described it as a fierce animal like a big horse with a single horn on its nose. Without their commanding horn the rhinoceros present a forlorn image. The Reserve has a similar program with rhinoceros where a microchip is implanted in the animal's horn both for identification purposes and to deter poaching. He fell to the ground, the large rhino horn protruding from his chest while black, sticky blood pooled around him. Other times and places he wore elk antlers instead, or the fibrous horns of a rhino, dancing about the walls of torch-lit caverns with feather and paw, fin and claw. 1.2 A deer's antler. 鹿角 Example sentencesExamples Solid horns, called antlers, distinguish most species in the deer family from the other hoofed mammals. The deer brought him to where Rishyashringa was, and Vibondaka saw this shining young baby with deer horns. Thinking it was some deer caught in an aged trap or caught by its horns, she dropped her pail, running immediately to the place. He ate the deer and displayed its horns on the tractor as a trophy. She crawled over and lay next to him, looking over the log to see a family of deer, a doe and three babies, their horns barely coming up. Most fights involve hooking uppercuts or a cautious locking of horns or shoving head to head, ending when one animal signals submission and the winner lets him go. There were the skulls of all manner of strange mountain animals, stags' horns, stuffed owls… Most of the venison comes from fallow deer, the kind that drop their horns in April and May in the park at Richmond; these are the usual inhabitants of deer parks. It always ends with death whether it is the death of our prey and our subsequent feast or the tragic death of a pack member, caught by the horns of an elk or trampled by deer. This is also in accord with beliefs concerning a white ibex or deer in the Caucasus Mountains, although these concern the animal's meat or milk rather than its horn. I ate my first bloody rare steak and you shot the coyote that still hangs in the family room next to one of your other first trophies, the thick horns of a mule deer. Suddenly, she saw the big buck, its crescent horns piercing the blue sky. Though later the victory of Enigorio, using deer horns, suggests some special status or power of the deer, Cusick never lingers on such spots. Behind him was a deer with great horns that twisted and turned in every direction. And then we rounded a corner and there was a male ibex nibbling on a tuft of grass, throwing his horns back every now and then as if troubled by a gigantic and very heavy quiff. You could have been given spider webs and violet fabric to wrap your chancre or sip tea made from deer horns but you were most likely to be dosed up with toxic heavy metals. Deer horns are mounted on top of a kostoweh worn by a leader. 1.3 A projection resembling a horn on the head of another animal, e.g. a snail's tentacle or the tuft of a horned owl. （其他动物头上的）角状物（例如蜗牛的触角、角鸮的冠毛） Example sentencesExamples The dorsal gray horn receives incoming or afferent fibers. And I don't want to cut off the horns of a black snail. Many of his contemporaries derided him as ‘a hesitating cow’ or ‘a bull with snail's horns.’ Any animal fairly bristling with long, pointed horns and spikes simply looks ready to fend off any and all would-be predators. She sighed as she looked down at the water and saw not only her reflection but a figure with brown hair and horns looking into the pond as well. The man has stopped to look at a slug, which has horns and a slick skin, but they only know he has stopped. In some boxfishes, such as the aptly named cowfishes, the keels extend forward, beyond the body, to form sharp horns. Many living animals have horns or hornlike organs; the list includes antelope, deer, chameleons, birds, and even ants. The figure was bald, and sported several horns where hair should have grown. This contrasts with the horns of artiodactyls, which have bone cores, are paired, and are located on the frontals. The creature within is like a huge snail with horns tipped by bright golden eyes. The lad noticed the stranger's ink-black hair and the horns that grew upon his head. Synonyms antenna, tentacle 1.4hornsarchaic A pair of horns as an emblem of a cuckold. 〈古〉绿帽子（妻子有外遇者的标志） 1.5West Indian mass noun Marital infidelity. 〈西印度〉（夫或妻）婚姻不忠 she took endless horn and pressure, but now she wants a divorce 她忍受了无尽的不忠和压力，现在再也受不了了，因此要求离婚。 2mass noun The substance of which horns are composed. 角质物 powdered rhino horn 犀牛角粉。 Example sentencesExamples Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part. It must be dissolved slowly in water, over several days and then filtered to remove traces of Acacia tree bark, elephant hide and rhino horn. I know this because I recently went into Gap to try on a nice grey cardigan with dark-green trim and horn buttons, mindful that this could be my key purchase for autumn 2004. In Yemen, for example, rhino horn is carved into handles used in daggers called jambiyas. To date we've examined over 1,000 rhino horn pills; we've never found a real one. It seems the Chinese believe that this rhino's horn cures everything from lumbago to laryngitis, and they will pay anything to get it. The same is true for the cost of rhino horn, but the whole story is even a bit more complicated. One trader along the border of what are today South Africa and Botswana employed 400 African hunters in the pursuit of rhino horn. Rhino horn is said to make men sexually unstoppable, and asparagus, bananas, eels, oysters, figs and ginseng are all reputed to get you going. But the proteins on our outside - in skin, hair, and nail, as well as animal horn and hoof - are of a different kind. We do have things like rhino horn occasionally, and tiger fur, not on a huge scale, but it still happens. This netsuke of a seated deer howling at the moon stands 9.7 cm in height, and was carved in the Edo period from ivory with dark horn inlaid for eyes. The reference to horn and ivory show that composite bows were known, and the inclusion of yew shows they knew of this best of bow timbers. Since Viagra gets it up more reliably than powdered horn, Asia has made a quick switch, and poachers have lost market share. Based on these measurements, the horn capsule of the claw is a composite of horn produced over the past 12 to 15 months. The bow itself could be simply of wood or of a composite of horn or whalebone placed between two thin pieces of yew and covered in tendon, while steel bows appear from the 14th century. Throw a tax cut their way, the argument goes, and like lovers haplessly lost to the aphrodisiacal effects of ground rhino horn, they'll be putty in your hands. Obviously rhino horn has nothing to do with genitalia. Tiger bone is used to treat arthritis and muscular atrophy, and rhino horn to treat fevers, convulsions, and delirium. Hand-crafted objects are made in wood, leather, horn, metal, stone, mineral, clay, cloth, and feathers. 2.1count noun A receptacle made of horn, such as a drinking container or powder flask. 角质容器（或器具）（如喝酒容器、火药筒） Example sentencesExamples Horns are used as butter dishes and large horns as cups for drinking mead. My current practice goes far better when I've had a couple of bottles / horns of beer or cider. He has raised a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he promised through holy prophets long ago. Then he grabbed his ration pack, gunpowder horn, and bullet bag. I watched his hands, tipping measured amounts of powder from a pewter horn, tapping in a ball and wad with a short ramrod. Drink was taken in horns, similarly decorated and sometimes with metal tips and rims. The soldier blinked repeatedly and then raised his horn to his lips. 3A horn-shaped projection or object. 角状突起物 Example sentencesExamples Half of the left uterine horn was fixed in Bouin's fixative, and processed routinely for immunohistochemistry. Michael's headlong flight meant he and Kieran were going to clip off the vanguard of the right horn of the crescent. Performers projected into a horn, and the vibrations were directly converted into the wiggles of a groove on the master disc. The tail occupies a position in the roof of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle. America's riches are pulling people all along the continent's Hispanic horn on a great migration to the place they call El Norte. The headdress with its straight, sharp horns holds out a model of a very different sort of response - that of active fight and resistance. The posterior horns are present and normal and contain normal choroid plexus. There's a cartoon: a man wrapped in a tuba, its horn gaping over his head. At the front are two projecting horns flanking a forecourt, at the back of which is the entrance to the chambers. He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated. The stool horns should project equally out from the side of the casing as it does from the front. 3.1 A sharp promontory or mountain peak. 尖岬；山峰 Example sentencesExamples Amongst the glowing purples and reds of a Saharan sunset the silhouette of Mount Ktrik, its peak formed from two horns, began to look very sinister. But rounding the horn and coming back up the peninsula was another story. 3.2 Cape Horn. 合恩角 3.3 An arm or branch of a river or bay. 河汊；狭湾 3.4 Each of the extremities of a crescent moon. Example sentencesExamples The bowed bottom of the anchor recalls the horns of the crescent moon, an attribute of the Egyptian goddess Isis, the queen of heaven and the virgin mother of Horus. The horns of the crescent moon were pointed almost straight up. Also, at high latitudes (close to the poles) the Moon never sticks its horns straight up. 3.5British vulgar slang An erect penis. 〈英，粗俚〉勃起的阴茎 4A wind instrument, conical in shape or wound into a spiral, originally made from an animal horn (now typically brass) and played by lip vibration. 号角 Example sentencesExamples At the conclusion eight horns (led by Michelle Perry of the Empire Brass) rang out triumphantly. Suddenly, the sharp call of a faraway horn caught the trio's attention. Around the clock, the coaches galloped down the towns' high streets with long brass horns blowing to warn pedestrians. Puck produces a horn, and raising it to his lips gives three blows. With a smooth, effortless movement, the killer kicked the master's horn over the edge of the balcony where it spun into the blackness below. So she took up the euphonium, a smaller horn that is a member of the tuba family. Her grandfather's horn sounded in the hilltop brush; the hounds burst into chorus. The pandemonium - for every horn must blare - cannot be imagined. It's the King coming and the sound of those who herald him with horns of brass pressed to their mouths. Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street. Suddenly she turned and vanished from the parapet; and all the time the sentry upon the wall blew out the long note from his brass horn. Could the Universe be shaped like a medieval horn? Behind the tumblers march musicians, playing early trumpets and horns. Valved horns were permitted, in the light of Wagner's own equivocation about them, joining those valved horn hybrids known as Wagner tubas. While the voices and sometimes tonal percussion leave you in no doubt about their West African roots, the horns echo African military bands and European / American brass bands. Notes from the organ and four horns drone and mimic cathedral bells. The lucky old sopranos only get blasted by the horns, which is much nicer. At their head stood Chief Hargougha with the horn raised to his mouth. Their origins lay among the huntsmen and foresters who had long used horns, either animal or metal, as a way of communicating in wooded areas. 4.1 short for French horn Example sentencesExamples The encore - Le Basque - by Marin Marais, arranged for horn and piano is an absolute charmer. During the summer months, she plays co-principal horn and is a featured soloist with the Capitol City Band. The orchestra is most likely to be double woodwind, horns and trumpets, harp, piano, percussion and strings. He uses brass - horns, in particular - recalling the grand heroic gestures of Romantic music. This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam. Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close. In the afternoon the quintet, which is made up of two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba, gave a concert in Marden House. There is some lovely playing, particularly from the woodwinds, but the horns, timpani and bass line are too recessed to have the necessary impact. Chailly has the vast canvas within his grasp from the very opening of those horns and brass that herald the mammoth journey. The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets. And when before have clarinets and horns been so mellowly blended? The brass section of an orchestra typically consists of trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas. He transcribed them and set about making a set of 14 parts for horns, trumpets, trombones and timpani. Peter von Winter's contribution is a Sinfonia concertante for violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra. The quintet of oboe, flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon is led by Howard Nelson and will present a programme of contrasting chamber music. The finale is for full orchestra with unison horns and trumpets rousingly playing Purcell's theme at the end. The NYOI is joined by the Wind Quintet of Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra which includes oboe, clarinet, horn, flute and bassoon. There surely must have been a hint of gold in music for woodwind and horns for Mozart to have dressed his offerings in such a resplendent manner. Right at the end, horns, trumpets, trombones intone the symphony's opening phrase - we have returned full circle. He wants to tell a joke that only horn players will really appreciate. 4.2informal (in jazz and popular music) any wind instrument. 〈非正式〉（爵士乐及流行乐中的任何一种）管乐器 keyboards, horns, and drums Example sentencesExamples It was easy for Buddy to copy the horn riffs on the songs on his guitar. Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms. The horns front a rhythm section that includes three percussionists armed with congas and bata drums, with no piano or guitar in the middle to mediate. Byron Wallen switches between trumpet and flugelhorn, whilst Ed Jones likewise moves from soprano to tenor horns. On their debut full-length, they combine syncopated ska guitars, manic horns, driving punk rhythms and frontman Tomas Kalnoky's raspy vocals. The Burr and Burton Academy band, crisp in summer whites accented with mountain green, contributes brass, drums, and horns. The majority of this album is built up around similar ambiences as the trio elaborate poignant melodies and impressive arrangements, complete with guitars, strings and horns. Eventually the band bounded onstage - horns blaring, double bass pounding and trumpets proclaiming that yes indeed, the mighty Skatalites had arrived. He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips. Lester has already received my billing, so I'll just start tooting Mike Megrew's horn instead. I remember sitting there at the Polo Grounds, and there was a guy sitting near me in the stands blowing this mournful horn. Standard beats, smooth keyboards synthesized horns and other instruments, and one repeating vocal sample is the blueprint here. Guitarist McGarvey sways backwards and forwards on his wah-wah pedal as the nine-piece band with full horn section segues seamlessly from Shaft to Bullitt. By the time the song proper kicks back in towards the end, everyone has melted so thoroughly that those upbeat horns and charging drums are actually a shock. They're textbooks on how strings, horns, brass, rhythm and vocal should be laid down. A man playing his horn hid behind a wall, and quickly snapped up the change I tossed in his case. At age seven, he received his first horn, a cornet. Another veteran Etoiles hero, Syran Mbenza, adds in the gently rousing guitar solos, while horns, violin and accordion provide the backing. In almost every song there is an acoustic element of either guitar, piano, horns, or vibraphones present in the mix. What You Want is a sweet love song, with some lazy Burt Bacharach style horns floating over the melody. 5A device sounding a warning or other signal. 警报器；喇叭 a car horn 汽车喇叭。 Example sentencesExamples A horn sounded, signalling the arrival of Peter's opponent. I must have spaced out, because before I knew it there was a great blare of horns behind me. They hold the moment for a little longer, not noticing the light turning green until a horn sounds from behind. In Beijing the sounding of car horns is the exception, rather than the rule while Shanghainese seem to hardly ever take their hand off the klaxon button. He sounded his warning horn, but Sgt Moodie's only response was to turn his back to the oncoming train. I jumped when I heard a horn honk behind me and spun around, as a familiar black car pulled up. I had tooted my horn to warn a cyclist that I was behind him. Another time, Li just couldn't get her car to start up at an intersection when the light turned green, leaving a whole line of vehicles blaring their horns behind her. Cameron stepped on the gas harder, honked the horn to warn a group of teenagers who were considering stepping onto the road right in front of him. In the distance, horns sounded as the royal army began riding out from behind the castle walls. The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish crossing. As she was trying to clean up the mess, using a box of tissues, she heard the honking of a horn behind her. Car drivers use their horns to signal their support. We were in the middle of kissing when a car horn blasted behind us. The pilot initiated an emergency descent after a warning horn sounded when the plane reached its cruising height of 32,000 ft. He exclaimed to himself before someone behind him honked their horn. In the third frame, the two clubs combined for four goals before the horn sounded to signal the end of the game. The bus driver sounded his horn, whereupon the car driver deliberately reduced his speed and delayed the progress of the bus. Jill sped past, cursing at the horns honking behind her. A horn blasted behind Adam and he eased off the brake. Synonyms siren, warning sound, alarm signal, danger signal, distress signal, alert verb hɔːnhɔrn [with object] 1(of an animal) butt or gore with the horns. （动物）用角抵撞（或顶撞） the bull horned him out of the way Synonyms pierce, stab, stick, impale, puncture, penetrate, spear, spit 2West Indian Be unfaithful to (one's husband or wife) 对（丈夫或妻子）不忠诚 all the time he was horning his wife 他一直对他的妻子不忠。 Example sentencesExamples They said ‘If yuh was getting horn, which would you prefer your partner to be horning you with, a member of the same sex or a member of the opposite sex?’ No parang song has ever created animosity, incited anarchy, induced horning, glorified carnage, supported drug abuse or unprotected sex, condoned domestic violence or maligned any person. In foreign countries, there is more horning, more deaths by murder and diseases of anger, more imprisonment, more self-abuse and abuse to others, and many Trinidadian families ask their family members to leave their homes. Phrases blow (or toot) one's own horn informal Talk boastfully about oneself or one's achievements. 〈北美，非正式〉吹嘘自己（或自己的成绩） Example sentencesExamples He's not a person that blows his own horn at all. Don't envy, don't boast, don't toot your own horn - ever. In other words, you're not just blowing your own horn. To toot my own horn, I've been referred to as ‘hot’ upon more than one occasion. I hate to toot my own horn but this is a pretty huge paradigm shift for me. Do not be conceited, he who blows his own horn will find people are quick to get out of his way. We are not trying to toot our own horn by praising the achievements of Taiwan's agricultural technical teams. Anyhow - I'm not writing to toot my own horn, I am writing to toot yours. Now, not to toot my own horn, but don't you think I deserve some credit in this scenario? He's certainly not shy about tooting his own horn in regard to some of the decisions that were made concerning the script and location shooting. Synonyms boast, brag, sing one's own praises, show off, swank, congratulate oneself draw (or pull) in one's horns Become less assertive or ambitious. 收敛（傲气或野心） Example sentencesExamples Nonetheless, what we should do is to make a serious analytical effort to determine what overseas military commitments make sense and where we should pull in our horns. A leader emboldened by four more years, with a greater mandate, is hardly likely to pull in his horns. The question is not whether consumers will draw in their horns, but how they will do so? Small wonder they drew in their horns and did nothing with it for a few years. I think a lot of companies, because of the economic situation, are pulling in their horns. This is not an argument for pulling in our horns. Individuals and businesses will pull in their horns. I believe that both companies will suffer when consumers are eventually forced to draw in their horns, which is why I'll be giving their shares a miss. Companies that discover what their clients really want and respond with innovative products creatively sold can increase their share and earnings even when many consumers are drawing in their horns. And from my point of view, he was one of those players who needed a shock to pull his horns in. on the horn 〈北美，非正式〉通电话，打电话 informal On the telephone. 〈北美，非正式〉通电话，打电话 she got on the horn to complain 她打电话抱怨。 Example sentencesExamples Just get on the horn and phone up your local Christian radio station and tell them that you have just got to hear that new single by the David Crowder Band. Olympia Snowe apparently needed to sidestep the machinery of legislative liaisons and the Senate leadership and get on the horn and tell Hughes, Card, et al. just what hell was going on. So my boss gets on the horn with one of the producers and insists that they let me meet with our client before he goes on the air. Unless you live in Melrose Place, they probably won't come, but they'll be less likely to get on the horn to the police and noise complaint department if you've made the effort. Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this. The Mirror got the pair on the horn for a conference call. The Mirror recently got on the horn with McFarlane at his L.A. office. Get that helicopter pilot on the horn, ASAP, tell him I'll be needing some things from home! If you live in one of the states where this stuff is being considered, I urge you to find out who your state representatives are and get on the horn, early and often, to let them know what you think of this idea. The task of finding guests - more than two dozen at last count - has fallen to Butcher, and he's been on the horn with consulates around the world, rounding up cartoonists to import. on the horns of a dilemma Faced with a decision involving equally unfavourable alternatives. 进退两难，进退维谷 Example sentencesExamples Scottish solicitors find themselves on the horns of a dilemma in attempting to comply with recent money laundering legislation, according to Joe Platt, president of the Law Society of Scotland. Families whose daughters entered convents often found themselves on the horns of a dilemma. Once more I find myself squirming on the horns of a dilemma. Meanwhile, at the Erinsborough Clinic, the young hairless harpy, found herself on the horns of a dilemma, so to speak. Republicans are stuck on the horns of a dilemma. Yorkshire are on the horns of a dilemma as they await medical opinion over how long their Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey could be sidelined with a hamstring injury. The judge admitted he was on the horns of a dilemma. In other words, they're on the horns of a dilemma, given their positions taken earlier on the cost of drugs. The Brooklyn Museum of Art, like many of its counterparts across the country, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma. So the government is impaled on the horns of a dilemma. Synonyms between the devil and the deep blue sea, between Scylla and Charybdis informal in a no-win situation, between a rock and a hard place Phrasal Verbs horn in Intrude or interfere. 〈非正式〉侵入；干涉，打扰 who asked you to horn in? Example sentencesExamples He considered her ‘interference ‘as horning in on HIS customer. I was doing that eons before this two-bit hustler started horning in on the action. And never mind the people on the waiting list who were bumped off because someone else with more money horned his way in. But things changed when digital cameras began horning in on film's turf. Fark seems to be horning in on Something Awful's racket. Busily I raced around New York, horning in on investors' conferences, eager to meet a financial guru or an entrepreneur who could teach me something. Yeah, then we got all these amateurs horning into the field, and felony fashions just went down the toilet. Then Nelson and David Rockefeller horned their way in, and the spotlight moved to the Trilateral Commission. A TV reporter was canned by WCBS yesterday after he shouted the F-word at two meddlers who horned in on his live shot. When asked how he feels about TAAFI horning in on his still-developing territory, he is quick to brush away any suggested rivalry. Socialist Workers try to horn in on every hot issue and march, but it seems that other groups aren't as bothered by this as they used to be. Derivatives hornist nounˈhɔːnɪstˈhɔrnəst A person who plays a horn, especially the French horn. he had been the principal hornist for the New York Philharmonic Example sentencesExamples Jaclyn, a student of D. Bruce Helm, also serves as the principal hornist for the Louisville Youth orchestra, where she has been a member for four years. Marie Masters was the soloist, and the hornists were Richard King, David Brockett, Hans Clebsch and Richard Solis. It is likely that these works were written for two accomplished hornists, Joseph Nagel and Franz Zwierzina, who played in the Wallerstein court orchestra in the early 1780s. hornless adjective ˈhɔːnləsˈhɔrnləs He didn't ask about her poor hornless unicorn that didn't speak. Example sentencesExamples Increases in the mean male body size in a population are therefore predicted to cause increases in the threshold body size that separates horned and hornless male morphs. The modern Irish hornless breed known as the Moylie is typically ‘red-brown with white faces, and a continuous white stripe along their backs, or almost entirely white with red ears and muzzles’. At Ali Kosh in the southern Zagros Mountains of Iran, an assemblage dating to about 7000 BC that includes hornless sheep is taken as clear evidence of flock manipulation. This particular type of animal is, indeed, extremely rare as hornless ewes comprise less than one per cent of this breed and total breed numbers are only around 5,000. horn-like adjective This touch-sensitive work consists of a series of horn-like spikes protruding from two circular discs that are hung on a wall like a painting. Example sentencesExamples Its timbre is horn-like, but it has a restricted range - as few as five notes - and its notes aren't even of equal quality, so composers need to dance around its limitations with deftness. Gilmour has inherited Wes Montgomery's style of playing horn-like lines on the guitar. How cassowaries produce their deep ‘boom’ is unclear, though Mack and his team speculate that cassowary communication is linked to the tall casques, or horn-like crests, that rise from the bird's head. These included horn-like ear trumpets, which were made from wood, various metals, or even adapted conch shells, whose effectiveness in transmitting sound depended on their length and shape. Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoorn and German Horn, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cornu and Greek keras. The word horn is related to corn ‘a painful area of thickened skin’, and cornea (Late Middle English) through its ancestor Latin cornu ‘horn’. In to draw (or pull) in your horns, ‘to become less assertive or ambitious’, the image is of a snail drawing in its eyestalks and retreating into its shell when disturbed. See dilemma Rhymes adorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, pawn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, suborn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn, yawn noun.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of horn in US English: horn nounhɔrnhôrn 1A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin. （牛、羊、长颈鹿等的）角 Example sentencesExamples Pan is most often portrayed with the torso of a man, the hooved legs and twisty horns of a wild goat, and the capricious face of a human. Most noticeable were two giant goat horns protruding from its head. At the end of these two cows' horns are attached, and to the horns two large goat skin bellows, one each side of the furnace. Some specimens even sport multiple pairs of horns, between four and six inches long. The only difference between them was the ram's horns on one's head and the goat horns on the other. Other participants perform libation using Scotch or other similar liquor by pouring from a ram's horn. The horns of cows and sheep grow over a bony core that resembles the horn in shape, so anything with a slightly twisted cone of rough-surfaced bone is unlikely to be human. Ankole cattle, from the great lakes region of East Africa, are also bred for horn shape and size. On his belt he carries several knives, and a ram's horn for blowing. Texas is a place where everything is bigger, the adage goes, and that's as true of our lakes as of the horns on our cattle and the tires on our pickups. What artist would represent cattle without horns? During their first cold winter, Lewis shipped a collection of skins, horns, skeletons, and prairie plants back down the Missouri. It is like looking at a pair of cattle horns, is it not? It was imperative that all ritual was accompanied by the correct type of bull according to its colour, markings and horn shape to ensure the efficacy of the ritual. In contrast, both sexes of many other hoofed mammals have permanent, hollow horns. Before that, ales, which were typically dark and cloudy with yeast, were served in everything from mugs and tankards to goat horns and the chalices of kings. At the festival itself, some of the men wear small goat horns attached to their heads, giving them a rather satyr like appearance. Here the cows were small with slender horns and the sheep quite goat-like. At the town's market, I had discovered the magnificent horns of a blue sheep while examining wildlife body parts being offered for sale. Male bighorn sheep with the largest horns, for instance, have the highest social rank and are more likely to mate. 1.1 A woolly keratinized outgrowth, occurring singly or one behind another, on the snout of a rhinoceros. （犀牛长鼻子上的）触角 Example sentencesExamples The Reserve has a similar program with rhinoceros where a microchip is implanted in the animal's horn both for identification purposes and to deter poaching. He flew up to where Element was situated, his sword floating up in front of him like a rhino's horn. He fell to the ground, the large rhino horn protruding from his chest while black, sticky blood pooled around him. Medieval explorers, coming across the rhinoceros, described it as a fierce animal like a big horse with a single horn on its nose. The soldiers allegedly used the stolen money to buy items as diverse as cameras and rhinoceros horns, the officials said. Now what about the issue of rhinoceros and the horns? Is it the rhinoceros with its aphrodisiac horn and herbivorous browsing? The Rhino's horn is not a true horn, but consists of compressed hair, and the animal prefers to defend itself with its canine teeth with which it can make horrible gashes. Without their commanding horn the rhinoceros present a forlorn image. Other times and places he wore elk antlers instead, or the fibrous horns of a rhino, dancing about the walls of torch-lit caverns with feather and paw, fin and claw. We had just completed a night safari, coming nose to horn with a rhino who proceeded to chase the jeep. The African rhino species have two horns, one behind the other, and have smooth, gray skin. 1.2 A deer's antler. 鹿角 Example sentencesExamples Most fights involve hooking uppercuts or a cautious locking of horns or shoving head to head, ending when one animal signals submission and the winner lets him go. There were the skulls of all manner of strange mountain animals, stags' horns, stuffed owls… Suddenly, she saw the big buck, its crescent horns piercing the blue sky. He ate the deer and displayed its horns on the tractor as a trophy. Most of the venison comes from fallow deer, the kind that drop their horns in April and May in the park at Richmond; these are the usual inhabitants of deer parks. Behind him was a deer with great horns that twisted and turned in every direction. And then we rounded a corner and there was a male ibex nibbling on a tuft of grass, throwing his horns back every now and then as if troubled by a gigantic and very heavy quiff. I ate my first bloody rare steak and you shot the coyote that still hangs in the family room next to one of your other first trophies, the thick horns of a mule deer. She crawled over and lay next to him, looking over the log to see a family of deer, a doe and three babies, their horns barely coming up. The deer brought him to where Rishyashringa was, and Vibondaka saw this shining young baby with deer horns. This is also in accord with beliefs concerning a white ibex or deer in the Caucasus Mountains, although these concern the animal's meat or milk rather than its horn. Deer horns are mounted on top of a kostoweh worn by a leader. Though later the victory of Enigorio, using deer horns, suggests some special status or power of the deer, Cusick never lingers on such spots. Solid horns, called antlers, distinguish most species in the deer family from the other hoofed mammals. It always ends with death whether it is the death of our prey and our subsequent feast or the tragic death of a pack member, caught by the horns of an elk or trampled by deer. Thinking it was some deer caught in an aged trap or caught by its horns, she dropped her pail, running immediately to the place. You could have been given spider webs and violet fabric to wrap your chancre or sip tea made from deer horns but you were most likely to be dosed up with toxic heavy metals. 1.3 A projection resembling a horn on the head of another animal, e.g., a snail's tentacle or the tuft of a horned owl. （其他动物头上的）角状物（例如蜗牛的触角、角鸮的冠毛） Example sentencesExamples The lad noticed the stranger's ink-black hair and the horns that grew upon his head. The dorsal gray horn receives incoming or afferent fibers. In some boxfishes, such as the aptly named cowfishes, the keels extend forward, beyond the body, to form sharp horns. Any animal fairly bristling with long, pointed horns and spikes simply looks ready to fend off any and all would-be predators. Many living animals have horns or hornlike organs; the list includes antelope, deer, chameleons, birds, and even ants. The man has stopped to look at a slug, which has horns and a slick skin, but they only know he has stopped. Many of his contemporaries derided him as ‘a hesitating cow’ or ‘a bull with snail's horns.’ This contrasts with the horns of artiodactyls, which have bone cores, are paired, and are located on the frontals. The figure was bald, and sported several horns where hair should have grown. The creature within is like a huge snail with horns tipped by bright golden eyes. She sighed as she looked down at the water and saw not only her reflection but a figure with brown hair and horns looking into the pond as well. And I don't want to cut off the horns of a black snail. Synonyms antenna, tentacle 1.4hornsarchaic A pair of horns as an emblem of a cuckold. 〈古〉绿帽子（妻子有外遇者的标志） 2The substance of which horns are composed. 角质物 powdered rhino horn 犀牛角粉。 Example sentencesExamples Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part. It seems the Chinese believe that this rhino's horn cures everything from lumbago to laryngitis, and they will pay anything to get it. Rhino horn is said to make men sexually unstoppable, and asparagus, bananas, eels, oysters, figs and ginseng are all reputed to get you going. Tiger bone is used to treat arthritis and muscular atrophy, and rhino horn to treat fevers, convulsions, and delirium. The same is true for the cost of rhino horn, but the whole story is even a bit more complicated. Hand-crafted objects are made in wood, leather, horn, metal, stone, mineral, clay, cloth, and feathers. We do have things like rhino horn occasionally, and tiger fur, not on a huge scale, but it still happens. In Yemen, for example, rhino horn is carved into handles used in daggers called jambiyas. Throw a tax cut their way, the argument goes, and like lovers haplessly lost to the aphrodisiacal effects of ground rhino horn, they'll be putty in your hands. The bow itself could be simply of wood or of a composite of horn or whalebone placed between two thin pieces of yew and covered in tendon, while steel bows appear from the 14th century. To date we've examined over 1,000 rhino horn pills; we've never found a real one. I know this because I recently went into Gap to try on a nice grey cardigan with dark-green trim and horn buttons, mindful that this could be my key purchase for autumn 2004. This netsuke of a seated deer howling at the moon stands 9.7 cm in height, and was carved in the Edo period from ivory with dark horn inlaid for eyes. But the proteins on our outside - in skin, hair, and nail, as well as animal horn and hoof - are of a different kind. Obviously rhino horn has nothing to do with genitalia. Based on these measurements, the horn capsule of the claw is a composite of horn produced over the past 12 to 15 months. Since Viagra gets it up more reliably than powdered horn, Asia has made a quick switch, and poachers have lost market share. It must be dissolved slowly in water, over several days and then filtered to remove traces of Acacia tree bark, elephant hide and rhino horn. One trader along the border of what are today South Africa and Botswana employed 400 African hunters in the pursuit of rhino horn. The reference to horn and ivory show that composite bows were known, and the inclusion of yew shows they knew of this best of bow timbers. 2.1 A receptacle or instrument made of horn, such as a drinking container or powder flask. 角质容器（或器具）（如喝酒容器、火药筒） Example sentencesExamples Then he grabbed his ration pack, gunpowder horn, and bullet bag. My current practice goes far better when I've had a couple of bottles / horns of beer or cider. Horns are used as butter dishes and large horns as cups for drinking mead. He has raised a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he promised through holy prophets long ago. I watched his hands, tipping measured amounts of powder from a pewter horn, tapping in a ball and wad with a short ramrod. The soldier blinked repeatedly and then raised his horn to his lips. Drink was taken in horns, similarly decorated and sometimes with metal tips and rims. 3A horn-shaped projection. 角状突起物 Example sentencesExamples The stool horns should project equally out from the side of the casing as it does from the front. Michael's headlong flight meant he and Kieran were going to clip off the vanguard of the right horn of the crescent. America's riches are pulling people all along the continent's Hispanic horn on a great migration to the place they call El Norte. The posterior horns are present and normal and contain normal choroid plexus. At the front are two projecting horns flanking a forecourt, at the back of which is the entrance to the chambers. He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated. The tail occupies a position in the roof of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle. The headdress with its straight, sharp horns holds out a model of a very different sort of response - that of active fight and resistance. Half of the left uterine horn was fixed in Bouin's fixative, and processed routinely for immunohistochemistry. There's a cartoon: a man wrapped in a tuba, its horn gaping over his head. Performers projected into a horn, and the vibrations were directly converted into the wiggles of a groove on the master disc. 3.1 A sharp promontory or mountain peak. 尖岬；山峰 Example sentencesExamples Amongst the glowing purples and reds of a Saharan sunset the silhouette of Mount Ktrik, its peak formed from two horns, began to look very sinister. But rounding the horn and coming back up the peninsula was another story. 3.2 A raised projection on the pommel of a Western saddle. slung from the horn of his saddle was a leather bag Example sentencesExamples The front horns permitted putting considerably more poundage behind the lance thrust than was possible with a pad saddle. He thanked god there was no saddle horn as Felix climbed up behind him. Trapping of fingers between the rope and saddle horn can cause multiple finger injuries. Angie mounted her horse, grabbing the reins with one hand, holding them above the horn of the western saddle. At that, Cirrus, who until now had been sitting on Hiera's saddle horn, spread his wings and uttered a single short shriek. A hand moved hers aside to grab the saddle horn and then he heaved himself up on the beast behind her. Still gripping the rope, Gritts tied one end of the rope to General's saddle horn and climbed back on. They had to pry his fingers from the saddle horn one at a time to get him down and into the house. He delayed his reply while he grabbed a hold of the saddle horn and mounted, fighting to control his emotions and well aware that Adam was studying him. Standing in the doorway, he looped the lead around the saddle horn. When he grabs hold of it I tie the other end to Dartanian's saddle horn. She had each horse's bridle on the horn too, and had a pile of blankets. He helped her get on her mare, then he grabbed Lady's saddle horn, and pulled himself on with great effort. 3.3the Horn Cape Horn. 合恩角 3.4 An arm or branch of a river or bay. 河汊；狭湾 3.5 Each of the extremities of a crescent moon. Example sentencesExamples The horns of the crescent moon were pointed almost straight up. Also, at high latitudes (close to the poles) the Moon never sticks its horns straight up. The bowed bottom of the anchor recalls the horns of the crescent moon, an attribute of the Egyptian goddess Isis, the queen of heaven and the virgin mother of Horus. 3.6British vulgar slang An erect penis. 〈英，粗俚〉勃起的阴茎 4A wind instrument, conical in shape or wound into a spiral, originally made from an animal horn (now typically brass) and played by lip vibration. 号角 Example sentencesExamples Suddenly, the sharp call of a faraway horn caught the trio's attention. Suddenly she turned and vanished from the parapet; and all the time the sentry upon the wall blew out the long note from his brass horn. Their origins lay among the huntsmen and foresters who had long used horns, either animal or metal, as a way of communicating in wooded areas. It's the King coming and the sound of those who herald him with horns of brass pressed to their mouths. Her grandfather's horn sounded in the hilltop brush; the hounds burst into chorus. Puck produces a horn, and raising it to his lips gives three blows. With a smooth, effortless movement, the killer kicked the master's horn over the edge of the balcony where it spun into the blackness below. Notes from the organ and four horns drone and mimic cathedral bells. Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street. Behind the tumblers march musicians, playing early trumpets and horns. Valved horns were permitted, in the light of Wagner's own equivocation about them, joining those valved horn hybrids known as Wagner tubas. The pandemonium - for every horn must blare - cannot be imagined. At their head stood Chief Hargougha with the horn raised to his mouth. While the voices and sometimes tonal percussion leave you in no doubt about their West African roots, the horns echo African military bands and European / American brass bands. So she took up the euphonium, a smaller horn that is a member of the tuba family. Could the Universe be shaped like a medieval horn? At the conclusion eight horns (led by Michelle Perry of the Empire Brass) rang out triumphantly. The lucky old sopranos only get blasted by the horns, which is much nicer. Around the clock, the coaches galloped down the towns' high streets with long brass horns blowing to warn pedestrians. 4.1 short for French horn Example sentencesExamples The orchestra is most likely to be double woodwind, horns and trumpets, harp, piano, percussion and strings. This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam. The encore - Le Basque - by Marin Marais, arranged for horn and piano is an absolute charmer. He transcribed them and set about making a set of 14 parts for horns, trumpets, trombones and timpani. Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close. There is some lovely playing, particularly from the woodwinds, but the horns, timpani and bass line are too recessed to have the necessary impact. He wants to tell a joke that only horn players will really appreciate. He uses brass - horns, in particular - recalling the grand heroic gestures of Romantic music. Peter von Winter's contribution is a Sinfonia concertante for violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra. During the summer months, she plays co-principal horn and is a featured soloist with the Capitol City Band. The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets. Chailly has the vast canvas within his grasp from the very opening of those horns and brass that herald the mammoth journey. The quintet of oboe, flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon is led by Howard Nelson and will present a programme of contrasting chamber music. Right at the end, horns, trumpets, trombones intone the symphony's opening phrase - we have returned full circle. The brass section of an orchestra typically consists of trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas. There surely must have been a hint of gold in music for woodwind and horns for Mozart to have dressed his offerings in such a resplendent manner. The NYOI is joined by the Wind Quintet of Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra which includes oboe, clarinet, horn, flute and bassoon. In the afternoon the quintet, which is made up of two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba, gave a concert in Marden House. The finale is for full orchestra with unison horns and trumpets rousingly playing Purcell's theme at the end. And when before have clarinets and horns been so mellowly blended? 5An instrument sounding a warning or other signal. 警报器；喇叭 a car horn 汽车喇叭。 Example sentencesExamples Car drivers use their horns to signal their support. He exclaimed to himself before someone behind him honked their horn. I jumped when I heard a horn honk behind me and spun around, as a familiar black car pulled up. The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish crossing. Jill sped past, cursing at the horns honking behind her. I had tooted my horn to warn a cyclist that I was behind him. In Beijing the sounding of car horns is the exception, rather than the rule while Shanghainese seem to hardly ever take their hand off the klaxon button. We were in the middle of kissing when a car horn blasted behind us. He sounded his warning horn, but Sgt Moodie's only response was to turn his back to the oncoming train. A horn sounded, signalling the arrival of Peter's opponent. They hold the moment for a little longer, not noticing the light turning green until a horn sounds from behind. As she was trying to clean up the mess, using a box of tissues, she heard the honking of a horn behind her. In the distance, horns sounded as the royal army began riding out from behind the castle walls. In the third frame, the two clubs combined for four goals before the horn sounded to signal the end of the game. I must have spaced out, because before I knew it there was a great blare of horns behind me. Cameron stepped on the gas harder, honked the horn to warn a group of teenagers who were considering stepping onto the road right in front of him. A horn blasted behind Adam and he eased off the brake. The pilot initiated an emergency descent after a warning horn sounded when the plane reached its cruising height of 32,000 ft. Another time, Li just couldn't get her car to start up at an intersection when the light turned green, leaving a whole line of vehicles blaring their horns behind her. The bus driver sounded his horn, whereupon the car driver deliberately reduced his speed and delayed the progress of the bus. Synonyms siren, warning sound, alarm signal, danger signal, distress signal, alert verbhɔrnhôrn [with object] (of an animal) butt or gore with the horns. （动物）用角抵撞（或顶撞） Synonyms pierce, stab, stick, impale, puncture, penetrate, spear, spit Phrases blow (or toot) one's own horn informal Talk boastfully about oneself or one's achievements. 〈北美，非正式〉吹嘘自己（或自己的成绩） Example sentencesExamples Now, not to toot my own horn, but don't you think I deserve some credit in this scenario? He's certainly not shy about tooting his own horn in regard to some of the decisions that were made concerning the script and location shooting. Don't envy, don't boast, don't toot your own horn - ever. Anyhow - I'm not writing to toot my own horn, I am writing to toot yours. To toot my own horn, I've been referred to as ‘hot’ upon more than one occasion. He's not a person that blows his own horn at all. We are not trying to toot our own horn by praising the achievements of Taiwan's agricultural technical teams. Do not be conceited, he who blows his own horn will find people are quick to get out of his way. In other words, you're not just blowing your own horn. I hate to toot my own horn but this is a pretty huge paradigm shift for me. Synonyms boast, brag, sing one's own praises, show off, swank, congratulate oneself draw (or pull) in one's horns Become less assertive or ambitious. 收敛（傲气或野心） Example sentencesExamples And from my point of view, he was one of those players who needed a shock to pull his horns in. I believe that both companies will suffer when consumers are eventually forced to draw in their horns, which is why I'll be giving their shares a miss. Companies that discover what their clients really want and respond with innovative products creatively sold can increase their share and earnings even when many consumers are drawing in their horns. Small wonder they drew in their horns and did nothing with it for a few years. This is not an argument for pulling in our horns. I think a lot of companies, because of the economic situation, are pulling in their horns. The question is not whether consumers will draw in their horns, but how they will do so? A leader emboldened by four more years, with a greater mandate, is hardly likely to pull in his horns. Individuals and businesses will pull in their horns. Nonetheless, what we should do is to make a serious analytical effort to determine what overseas military commitments make sense and where we should pull in our horns. on the horn 〈北美，非正式〉通电话，打电话 informal On the telephone. 〈北美，非正式〉通电话，打电话 she got on the horn to complain 她打电话抱怨。 Example sentencesExamples So my boss gets on the horn with one of the producers and insists that they let me meet with our client before he goes on the air. The Mirror recently got on the horn with McFarlane at his L.A. office. The task of finding guests - more than two dozen at last count - has fallen to Butcher, and he's been on the horn with consulates around the world, rounding up cartoonists to import. Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this. Olympia Snowe apparently needed to sidestep the machinery of legislative liaisons and the Senate leadership and get on the horn and tell Hughes, Card, et al. just what hell was going on. Get that helicopter pilot on the horn, ASAP, tell him I'll be needing some things from home! Unless you live in Melrose Place, they probably won't come, but they'll be less likely to get on the horn to the police and noise complaint department if you've made the effort. Just get on the horn and phone up your local Christian radio station and tell them that you have just got to hear that new single by the David Crowder Band. The Mirror got the pair on the horn for a conference call. If you live in one of the states where this stuff is being considered, I urge you to find out who your state representatives are and get on the horn, early and often, to let them know what you think of this idea. on the horns of a dilemma Faced with a decision involving equally unfavorable alternatives. 进退两难，进退维谷 Example sentencesExamples In other words, they're on the horns of a dilemma, given their positions taken earlier on the cost of drugs. Once more I find myself squirming on the horns of a dilemma. Scottish solicitors find themselves on the horns of a dilemma in attempting to comply with recent money laundering legislation, according to Joe Platt, president of the Law Society of Scotland. Meanwhile, at the Erinsborough Clinic, the young hairless harpy, found herself on the horns of a dilemma, so to speak. Families whose daughters entered convents often found themselves on the horns of a dilemma. Yorkshire are on the horns of a dilemma as they await medical opinion over how long their Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey could be sidelined with a hamstring injury. The judge admitted he was on the horns of a dilemma. The Brooklyn Museum of Art, like many of its counterparts across the country, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma. So the government is impaled on the horns of a dilemma. Republicans are stuck on the horns of a dilemma. Synonyms between the devil and the deep blue sea, between scylla and charybdis Phrasal Verbs horn in Intrude or interfere. 〈非正式〉侵入；干涉，打扰 Example sentencesExamples He considered her ‘interference ‘as horning in on HIS customer. I was doing that eons before this two-bit hustler started horning in on the action. Yeah, then we got all these amateurs horning into the field, and felony fashions just went down the toilet. A TV reporter was canned by WCBS yesterday after he shouted the F-word at two meddlers who horned in on his live shot. But things changed when digital cameras began horning in on film's turf. Then Nelson and David Rockefeller horned their way in, and the spotlight moved to the Trilateral Commission. And never mind the people on the waiting list who were bumped off because someone else with more money horned his way in. Fark seems to be horning in on Something Awful's racket. When asked how he feels about TAAFI horning in on his still-developing territory, he is quick to brush away any suggested rivalry. Busily I raced around New York, horning in on investors' conferences, eager to meet a financial guru or an entrepreneur who could teach me something. Socialist Workers try to horn in on every hot issue and march, but it seems that other groups aren't as bothered by this as they used to be. Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoorn and German Horn, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cornu and Greek keras. noun.1 phr. phr.v.
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