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noun tɒdtɑd in phrase on one's todBritish informal On one's own. 〈英，非正式〉独自地 I'm going to do something, not just sit here on my tod 我要做点什么，而不只是独自一人坐在这里。 Example sentencesExamples - Needless to say, the following morning, when the tablets and porter wore off, the bus was empty, and he was heading back to South America on his tod!
- I refer, of course, to Ellen MacArthur, the 24 year-old who has sailed single-handedly round the world, becoming in the process the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe on her tod.
- While the game has its share of platform-hopping and turn-based combat, there are plenty of clever conundrums to cope with as baby Mario and Luigi toddle away on their tod to open doors and raise platforms so the adults can progress.
- "Guess who's going to end up going to Sequoia National Park on her tod," remarked Wendy.
- I'd been in a couple of really good bands and we never got anywhere, so I was left on my tod.
Origin1930s: from rhyming slang Tod Sloan, the name of an American jockey (1873–1933). Rhymesbod, clod, cod, god, hod, mod, nod, od, odd, plod, pod, prod, quad, quod, scrod, shod, squad, Todd, trod, wad noun tɒdtɑd A bushy mass of foliage, especially ivy.
OriginLate Middle English (in sense ‘measure of weight used in the wool trade’): of uncertain origin. nountɑdtäd in phrase on one's todBritish informal On one's own. 〈英，非正式〉独自地 I'm going to do something, not just sit here on my tod 我要做点什么，而不只是独自一人坐在这里。 Example sentencesExamples - I refer, of course, to Ellen MacArthur, the 24 year-old who has sailed single-handedly round the world, becoming in the process the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe on her tod.
- "Guess who's going to end up going to Sequoia National Park on her tod," remarked Wendy.
- I'd been in a couple of really good bands and we never got anywhere, so I was left on my tod.
- While the game has its share of platform-hopping and turn-based combat, there are plenty of clever conundrums to cope with as baby Mario and Luigi toddle away on their tod to open doors and raise platforms so the adults can progress.
- Needless to say, the following morning, when the tablets and porter wore off, the bus was empty, and he was heading back to South America on his tod!
Origin1930s: from rhyming slang Tod Sloan, the name of an American jockey (1873–1933). nountɑdtäd A bushy mass of foliage, especially ivy.
OriginLate Middle English (in sense ‘measure of weight used in the wool trade’): of uncertain origin. |