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词汇 kissing cousin
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Definition of kissing cousin in English:

kissing cousin

noun
  • 1A relative known well enough to be greeted with a kiss.

    问候时可亲吻的亲戚

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I need all the support I can get to show Magick and Quantum Physics are kissing cousins…
    • As any woman who's been pregnant knows, the uterus and the bladder are kissing cousins inside your abdomen.
    • Innovation and entrepreneurship may not be perfect synonyms, but semantically the two are at least kissing cousins.
    • For one thing, none of the 10 shorthaired breeds in existence in the late 1960s looked anything like the Persian's kissing cousin.
    • Philip realizes that ‘It can be said - has been said - that I write the kind of poetry that can be described as language poetry - kissing cousins with it at least’.
    • Outsourcing and shared services have always been related, but the Web promises to make them kissing cousins.
    • For rank-and-file Democrats, reformers and Republicans were kissing cousins.
    • Trial lawyers and MTV are bastions of liberalism and, therefore, kissing cousins.
    • Pharmacologically, caffeine is a kissing cousin of theophylline, and in high doses it can produce sympathomimetic effects.
    • Yet another kissing cousin of the socialist Progressive Challenge is the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
    • All of it going to kissing cousins of those who had to approve the deal.
    • Uncle Sam's nephews were hardly kissing cousins, and the contrast with the happy family who were the European side was more than marked.
    • To me it sounds like we're all stupid, helpless idiots, no different from our kissing cousins, the chimpanzees, trying to learn the Pythagorean theorem.
    • That is not to say that the parts are interchangeable, for they are not, but they are surely kissing cousins.
    • Now my hair is short, a kissing cousin to a bob (less formal angles), and it's choppy and almost punk rock looking.
    1. 1.1 Something that is of a very similar character to another thing of the same type.
      beneath the surface, gospel music and the blues are kissing cousins

Definition of kissing cousin in US English:

kissing cousin

noun
  • 1A relative known well enough to be greeted with a kiss.

    问候时可亲吻的亲戚

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Innovation and entrepreneurship may not be perfect synonyms, but semantically the two are at least kissing cousins.
    • I need all the support I can get to show Magick and Quantum Physics are kissing cousins…
    • As any woman who's been pregnant knows, the uterus and the bladder are kissing cousins inside your abdomen.
    • That is not to say that the parts are interchangeable, for they are not, but they are surely kissing cousins.
    • All of it going to kissing cousins of those who had to approve the deal.
    • Pharmacologically, caffeine is a kissing cousin of theophylline, and in high doses it can produce sympathomimetic effects.
    • To me it sounds like we're all stupid, helpless idiots, no different from our kissing cousins, the chimpanzees, trying to learn the Pythagorean theorem.
    • Outsourcing and shared services have always been related, but the Web promises to make them kissing cousins.
    • For rank-and-file Democrats, reformers and Republicans were kissing cousins.
    • For one thing, none of the 10 shorthaired breeds in existence in the late 1960s looked anything like the Persian's kissing cousin.
    • Now my hair is short, a kissing cousin to a bob (less formal angles), and it's choppy and almost punk rock looking.
    • Trial lawyers and MTV are bastions of liberalism and, therefore, kissing cousins.
    • Philip realizes that ‘It can be said - has been said - that I write the kind of poetry that can be described as language poetry - kissing cousins with it at least’.
    • Yet another kissing cousin of the socialist Progressive Challenge is the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
    • Uncle Sam's nephews were hardly kissing cousins, and the contrast with the happy family who were the European side was more than marked.
    1. 1.1 Something that is of a very similar character to another thing of the same type.
      beneath the surface, gospel music and the blues are kissing cousins
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